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ROBERT L. EHRLICH, JR., Governor Ch. 334
SECTION 3. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act shall take effect
October 1, 2005.
Approved May 10, 2005.
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CHAPTER 334
(Senate Bill 782)
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AN ACT concerning
Public Health - Child Abuse and Neglect Centers of Excellence Initiative
FOR the purpose of establishing a Child Abuse and Neglect Centers of Excellence
Initiative in the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene; providing for the
purposes of the Initiative; requiring the Maryland Chapter of the American
Academy of Pediatrics to operate, manage, and administer the Initiative;
requiring the Department to cooperate and assist the Maryland Chapter of the
American Academy of Pediatrics in overseeing the Initiative; providing for the
duties of the Centers of Excellence faculty; authorizing a Center of Excellence to
receive certain information from the Department on and consult and to consult
with the Department on certain cases from certain programs or entities;
requiring the Secretary of the Health and Mental Hygiene to appoint and
convene a certain panel each year; requiring certain the panel to assist the
Secretary in reviewing and determining the appropriateness of certain codes and
bill protocols relating to child abuse and neglect cases and determining how
certain data may be preserved; requiring the panel to meet with certain
representatives to provide certain training in certain codes and billing protocols;
requiring the panel to submit a certain report to the General Assembly on or
before a certain date each year to the General Assembly on certain data collected
on data collected and the activities of the Initiative; requiring the Governor to
include certain appropriations in the State budget in certain years; requiring the
Office of Legislative Audits to audit certain accounts and transactions of the
Initiative; requiring the Governor to include a certain appropriation in the State
budget in a certain year; requiring the Governor to include a certain
appropriation in the State budget each year of a certain amount; requiring the
Office of Legislative Audits to audit certain accounts and transaction of the
Initiative; authorizing requiring certain providers to examine and treat certain
children if the child is brought to the providers by certain individuals required to
report suspected child abuse or neglect; authorizing certain providers to provide
expert child abuse or neglect care under certain circumstances; defining certain
terms; requiring the State Attorney General, in conjunction with the Secretary
of Health and Mental Hygiene and the Secretary of Human Resources, to
convene a certain workgroup composed of certain representatives members;
requiring the workgroup to investigate study and make recommendations on the
use of, reimbursement for, availability of, and implementation of
videoconferencing as a resource in certain investigations; requiring the
workgroup to submit a certain report on or before a certain date to the General
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