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placement Volume), title "Comprehensive Drug Abuse Control and
Rehabilitation Act," to eliminate certain restrictions of time in
treatment and diagnosis imposed upon the Drug Abuse Authority;
and to require approval PAROLE SUPERVISION by the Depart-
ment of Parole and Probation of outpatient programs.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That Sections 12(d) and 14 of Article 43B of the Annotated Code of
Maryland (1971 Replacement Volume), title "Comprehensive Drug
Abuse Control and Rehabilitation Act," be and they are hereby re-
pealed and reenacted, with amendments, to read as follows:

12.

(d) [Every drug addict certified to the Authority pursuant to
this section shall receive initial inpatient hospitalization following
an order of commitment at the Center exclusively. If after sixty days
following receipt at the Center of an addict committed] If, at any
time after commitment of an addict pursuant to this section, the Au-
thority concludes that the addict, because of excessive criminality or
for other relevant reason, is not a fit subject for confinement COM-
MITMENT or treatment, [in the Center,] the Authority shall return
the addict to the committing court for termination of the commitment
and referral to the court of the addict's criminal conviction for the
resumption of the pending criminal proceedings.

14.

(a)    Any person who is certified by court order to the care and
custody of the Authority [pursuant to this article] and who is re-
ceiving in-patient care pursuant to a determination by the Authority
shall be conditionally released from institutional custody and receive
outpatient care and services whenever the Authority determines
that he has made sufficient progress to warrant such release. [; pro-
vided, however, that if the Authority is unable to make such determi-
nation after the expiration of the period for initial inpatient care as
provided for in this article, the Authority shall return such person to
the committing court for further action pursuant to this article.]

(b)    Whenever any patient is to be conditionally released by the
Authority, the Authority shall give written notice to the committing
court within [ten] five days [of the pending] after such release.

(c)    Any person who is conditionally released as an outpatient
shall, while on release, remain in the legal custody of the Authority.
The period of every such conditional release shall be a minimum of
three years in which the outpatient shall comply with the rules, regu-
lations and conditions of such release as determined by the Authority.
The Authority may designate any individual, agency or group, public
or private, to supervise approved aftercare programs for outpa-
tients; provided, however, that the Department of Parole and Proba-
tion shall approve [be designated by the Authority to supervise]
such programs HAVE PAROLE SUPERVISION of any outpatient
who was certified to the Authority pursuant to [Section 12 and]
Section 13 of this article.

(d)    Upon the determination that any person conditionally re-
leased has violated any conditions of his release, the Authority may
certify that such outpatient is not a fit subject for rehabilitation