HARRY HUGHES, Governor                                  1603

SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That section(s) of the Annotated Code of Maryland
read(s) 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 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 AND EACH MAY BE REPRESENTED BY A
DESIGNEE;

(vi) One member shall be an elected
official from a local governing body.

(3)  (I) Each member of the Commission other than
the Attorney General, Secretary of General Services, and
Secretary of State Planning shall serve a term of office
which is 3 years, except that, of the initial members, three
shall be appointed for a term of 1 year, three shall be
appointed for a term of 2 years, and two shall be appointed
for a term of 3 years.

(II) AN EX OFFICIO MEMBER OF THE COMMISSION
MAY ELECT TO SERVE PERSONALLY AT ANY COMMISSION MEETING OR
MAY DESIGNATE A MEMBER OF HIS OR HER DEPARTMENT TO REPRESENT
AND TO ACT FOR THE EX OFFICIO MEMBER AT ANY MEETING TO THE
SAME EFFECT AS IF THE EX OFFICIO MEMBER WERE PERSONALLY
PRESENT.