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Ch. 628 2006 LAWS OF MARYLAND
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CHAPTER 628
(House Bill 1594)
AN ACT concerning
Benefits and Services for Individuals Who Are Incarcerated or
Institutionalized - Work Group Report
FOR the purpose of extending the date by which a certain work group convened by
the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, the Department of Human
Resources, and the Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services is
required to issue a certain report including certain findings and
recommendations; and generally relating to a work group report concerning
benefits for individuals who are incarcerated or institutionalized.
BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,
Chapter 82 of the Acts of the General Assembly of 2005
Section 3
SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That the Laws of Maryland read as follows:
Chapter 82 of the Acts of 2005
SECTION 3. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That:
(a) The Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, the Department of
Human Resources, and the Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services
shall convene a work group consisting of interested stakeholders to make
recommendations on actions to be taken to break the cycle of rearrest and
reincarceration for individuals with mental illnesses who become involved with the
criminal justice system, including the following:
(1) recommended agency responsibility for and actions to be taken to
ensure that suspension and reinstatement of benefits occur in a seamless fashion;
(2) review and clarification of current and recommended agency
responsibility for case management services for individuals released from
incarceration;
(3) measures to ensure that timely assistance is provided to inmates
with psychiatric disabilities who are not on eligibility rolls for federal benefits but
who are likely to be eligible for those benefits on release;
(4) recommendations regarding the creation of a State bridge program
for released inmates with mental illnesses whose applications for federal benefits are
pending;
(5) review and clarification of current and recommended agency
responsibility for providing access to medically necessary mental health services for
inmates both while incarcerated and on release;
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