Ch. 769                                          LAWS OF MARYLAND

CHAPTER 769

(Senate Bill 617)

AN ACT concerning

Child Abuse and Neglect Reporting—

Attorney Client Privilege
Family Law - Certain Notice Requirement - Exceptions

FOR the purpose of prohibiting a certain child abuse and neglect

reporting requirement from impairing or abrogating a

attorney client privilege; making stylistic changes; and
generally relating to the attorney client privilege under
the mandatory child abuse and neglect reporting requirement
providing that certain persons are not required to provide
notification of certain child abuse or neglect under
specific circumstances.

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,

Article - Family Law

Section 5-704(a) and 5-705

Section 5-705(a)

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1984 Volume and 1987 Supplement)

(As enacted by Chapter 635 of the

Acts of the General Assembly of 1987)

SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That the Laws of Maryland read as follows:

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(a) [Notwithstanding] (1) EXCEPT FOR THE ATTORNEY CLIENT
PRIVILEGE, NOTWITHSTANDING any other provision of law, including

[any] A law on privileged communications, each health

practitioner, police officer, of educator or human service
worker, acting in a professional capacity, who has reason to
believe that a child has been subjected to:

[(1)] (i) 1. abuse, shall notify the local department
or the appropriate law enforcement agency; or

[(ii)] 2. neglect, shall notify the local

department; and

[(2)](II) If acting as a staff member of a hospital,
public health agency, child care institution, juvenile detention
center, school, or similar institution, immediately notify and

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