PARRIS N. GLENDENING, Governor

Ch. 299

CHAPTER 299
(House Bill 1073)

AN ACT concerning

Education Coordinating Council for Correctional Institutions

FOR the purpose of altering the circumstances under which educational standards that
inmates shall be are required to meet certain educational standards under certain
regulations adopted by the Education Coordinating Council for Correctional
Institutions; expanding the application of the regulations to certain inmates
requiring, under the regulations, certain inmates to participate in a certain
education program for a certain period of time or a vocational training program;
extending the period of time for which certain inmates are required to participate in
a certain education program under the regulations; requiring certain inmates to
participate in a vocational training program; making a conforming technical change;
altering the application of the regulations; providing for the effective date of this
Act; and generally relating to the duties of the Education Coordinating Council for
Correctional Institutions.

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,
Article - Education
Section 22-102
Annotated Code of Maryland
(1992 Replacement Volume and 1995 Supplement)

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

Article - Education

22-102.

(a)     The Education Coordinating Council for Correctional Institutions shall
develop and recommend an educational program for each correctional institution in the
Division of Correction. The programs shall meet the special needs and circumstances of
the inmates in the institution.

(b)     (1) The Council shall adopt regulations for all correctional institutions in
the Division of Correction for the implementation of a mandatory education program for
all inmates who fail to attain a minimum educational standard as set forth in this
subsection.

(2) The regulations adopted by the Council shall require that:

(i) 1. In [1988,] 1996, the THE educational standard shall be the
[6th grade equivalent in reading on the Test of Adult Basic Education (TABE)]
ATTAINMENT OF A GENERAL EDUCATION DIPLOMA (G.E.D.) OR A VERIFIED HIGH
SCHOOL DIPLOMA;

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