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Senate Bill No. 1109

AN ACT concerning

Commission on Public Safety and Correctional Services
Correctional Standards

FOR the purpose of altering the number and composition of
the members on the Commission on Public Safety and
Correctional Services Correctional Standards.

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,

Article 41 - Governor - Executive and Administrative

Departments

Section 70C(c)

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1978 Replacement Volume and 1980 Supplement)

SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That section(s) of the Annotated Code of Maryland
be repealed, amended, or enacted to read as follows:

Article 41 - Governor - Executive and Administrative

Departments

70C.

(c) (1) There is a Commission on Correctional
Standards. The Commission is an agency of the Department of
Public Safety and Correctional Services.

(2) The Governor, by and with the advice and
consent of the Senate, shall appoint the [11] 15 13 members
of the Commission, who collectively possess the following
qualifications:

(i) Two members shall be Maryland citizens
who are not directly employed in the field of corrections;

(ii) Two members shall be State government
correctional personnel;

(iii) Two members shall be local
government correctional personnel;

(iv) One member shall be an official or
employee of the Commission on Accreditation for Corrections
or a similar national correctional accreditation
organization;

(v) The Attorney General, Secretary of
General Services, and Secretary of State Planning shall be
ex officio members;