PARRIS N. GLENDENING, Governor                              Ch. 587

CHAPTER 587
(Senate Bill 578)

AN ACT concerning

Public Safety Financing Reform Act of 1996

Court Costs - State Aid for Police Protection, Criminal Injuries Compensation, and
Victim and Witness Protection and Relocation

FOR the purpose of altering the per capita amount of a certain supplemental grant by the
State to certain subdivisions for police protection; providing for a supplemental
grant by the State to Baltimore City of a certain per capita amount; requiring the
State to allocate and distribute the grant among the subdivisions and certain
municipalities in the subdivisions on a per capita basis; altering the calculation of a
certain payment by the State each fiscal year to certain municipalities based on the
number of sworn police officers employed by the municipality; altering the amounts
of certain court costs imposed in the District Court; altering the distribution of
certain court costs collected by the District Court; requiring that certain fees be
distributed to the Criminal Injuries Compensation Fund; and generally relating to
State allocation of money to subdivisions and municipalities for police protection
requiring certain funds to be paid to the Criminal Injuries Compensation Fund and the
Victim and Witness Protection and Relocation Fund; establishing the Victim and
Witness Protection and Relocation Fund; providing for the continuance, accounting,
investment and receipt of funds, audit, and purpose of the Victim and Witness Protection
and Relocation Fund; and generally relating to court costs.

BY repealing and reenacting, without amendments,
Article 88B - Department of State Police
Section 66(a)(1)
Annotated Code of Maryland
(1995 Replacement Volume)

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,
Article 88B - Department of State Police
Section 66(b)(5) and (8)
Annotated Code of Maryland
(1995 Replacement Volume)

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,
Article - Courts and Judicial Proceedings
Section 7-301

Annotated Code of Maryland
(1995 Replacement Volume and 1995 Supplement)

BY adding to

Article 27 - Crime and Punishments

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