1140                                      LAWS OF MARYLAND                                Ch. 515

CHAPTER 515
(House Bill 166)

AN ACT to repeal Section 4A of Article 88A of the Annotated Code of Maryland
(1969 Replacement Volume and 1972 Supplement), title "Social Services
Administration," subtitle "In General," and to repeal and re-enact, with
amendments, Section 205A of Article 41 of the Annotated Code of Maryland
(1971 Replacement Volume), title "Governor - Executive and Administrative
Departments," subtitle "The Department of Employment and Social Services,"
to abolish the Advisory Council on Child Welfare.

SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That Section 4A of Article 88A of the Annotated Code of
Maryland (1969 Replacement Volume and 1972 Supplement), title "Social Services
Administration," subtitle "In General," be and it is hereby repealed.

[4A.

(a) The State Administration shall have an advisory council on child welfare
composed of one member of the State Board of Social Services appointed by its
chairman, one person representing the State Department of Health appointed by
the Commissioner, one person representing the State Department of Mental
Hygiene appointed by the Commissioner, one person representing the Employment
Security Administration appointed by the State Director, one person representing
the State Department of Education appointed by the State Superintendent of
Schools, one person representing the State Department of Juvenile Services
appointed by the Director, one person representing the State Office of Economic
Opportunity appointed by the Executive Director, one person representing the
courts appointed by the Chief Judge of the Court of Appeals, and six additional
persons representing voluntary child welfare organizations and the public appointed
with the approval of the Governor by the Secretary of Employment and Social
Services, who shall designate one of said six persons to serve as chairman, and
seven additional persons who are or represent recipients of aid to families with
dependent children and child welfare services selected by the Secretary of
Employment and Social Services, with the approval of the Governor, from lists
submitted by the State Administration, which lists shall contain twice the number
of persons to be selected and shall be formulated in accordance with rules and
regulations approved by the Secretary of Employment and Social Services
consonant with federal laws and regulations governing the establishment of
advisory groups in relation to and to families with dependent children and child
welfare services. Each member of the council shall serve thereon at the pleasure of
the official by whom he was appointed, and shall receive no compensation for his
service, but shall be paid the reasonable expenses necessary for the discharge of his
official duties. The executive secretary to the advisory council shall be appointed
by the Secretary of Employment and Social Services upon the recommendation of
the State Director of Social Services.

(b)   The advisory council to the State Department shall have continuing
responsibility for the initiation of activity leading to strengthened programs of aid
to families with dependent children and child welfare services, including prevention
and control of illegitimacy, by providing leadership through investigation and
recommendation of policy, programs and plans for their implementation.

(c)  The advisory council shall report the results of its investigations and make
its recommendations to the State Board, the Director of the State Administration,
and the Secretary of Employment and Social Services. The council shall publish its
assessment of the programs and effectiveness of the State's efforts to strengthen
aid to families with dependent children and child welfare services and to control