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HARRY HUGHES, Governor
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administrators, and State's attorneys, is itself a major, complex
program involving the enforcement of state and federal child
support laws including location of absent parents, establishing
paternity and support awards through the courts, and enforcement
and collection of existing court ordered child support; and
WHEREAS, Revenues collected by the child support enforcement
program total approximately $57 million per year, including $18
million on behalf of public assistance families used to offset
the cost of the AFDC program, and $39 million collected for
nonpublic assistance families which help those families to avoid
the need for public assistance; and
WHEREAS, Many other states have separated the administration
of the child support enforcement program from administration of
income maintenance programs in order to establish a greater level
of program attention and leadership; and
WHEREAS, Despite the improved record of child support
collections in recent years, the Governor and the General
Assembly now deem it desirable to establish the Child Support
Enforcement Administration as a separate administration within
the Department of Human Resources in order to provide a high
level of management and leadership devoted solely to maximizing
collections on behalf of families and revenues on behalf of the
State; now, therefore,
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SECTION 1. BE IT ORDERED BY THE GOVERNOR OF MARYLAND
PURSUANT TO ARTICLE II, SECTION 24, OF THE CONSTITUTION OF
MARYLAND, That:
Article 16 - Chancery
66B.
(b) A bill or petition may not be filed or received by the
clerk of the court if the consent or authorization of the State's
attorney for the county or city where the same is to be filed is
not attached unless:
(2) The bill or petition is filed on behalf of the
[bureau of support enforcement of the Social Services
Administration] CHILD SUPPORT ENFORCEMENT ADMINISTRATION OF THE
DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN RESOURCES.
66C.
(a) If the complainant or petitioner is the [bureau of
support enforcement of the Social Services Administration] CHILD
SUPPORT ENFORCEMENT ADMINISTRATION OF THE DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN
RESOURCES or a person whom the (bureau] ADMINISTRATION approves
for child support services, the complainant or petitioner shall
be represented as provided in Article 88A, § 59(c). When, in
accordance with that subsection, the Attorney General or legal
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