PARRIS N. GLENDENING, Governor

Ch. 311

inmate has been found guilty of violating a condition of parole or mandatory
supervision or if a warrant or subpoena is issued for the defendant or inmate;
transferring from the Maryland Parole Commission to the Department of Public Safety
and Correctional Services the responsibility of receiving and sending certain notices;
altering a certain time period for providing a certain notice; requiring a commitment
agency, under certain circumstances, to notify the victim of certain information and
events concerning the defendant; prohibiting a commitment agency from disclosing
to a defendant certain information regarding the victim; prohibiting a law
enforcement agency from charging a victim for a copy of an incident report in a
domestic violence case when a law enforcement officer responds to a request for
assistance; requiring the written notice given to a victim by a law enforcement
officer who responds to a request for assistance in a domestic violence case to
inform the victim of the right to obtain a copy of the incident report; altering the
circumstances under which compliance with a judgment of restitution shall be
required; eliminating a certain time period for holding certain restitution hearings:
providing the Department of Juvenile Justice with certain responsibilities concerning
certain restitution judgements; requiring all moneys collected from a judgment of
restitution to be treated as abandoned property if a victim cannot be located;
requiring a delinquent restitution account to be referred to the Central Collection
Unit if the probation or other supervision is terminated and restitution is still owed;
expanding the availability of benefits from the Criminal Injuries Compensation
Fund to victims who suffer psychological injury as a direct result of a crime felony or
physical injury or death directly resulting from a crime, altering the standard of
judgment certain claimants are required to prove in order to recover from the
Criminal Injuries Compensation Fund; expanding the right to request HIV testing
of offenders to include a law enforcement officer who was certain persons who were
performing official duties at the time of suspected exposure; expanding the means
by which a person may be considered to be exposed to HIV; authorizing a victim
who receives notification of the results of an HIV test to disclose the results to an
organization to protect the health and safety of, or to seek compensation for certain
purposes; requiring the Patuxent Board of Review to give a victim a reasonable
opportunity to present oral testimony in a certain manner before the Board decides
whether to grant work release, leave status, or parole to an eligible person;
increasing the circumstances under which a victim may request that an inmate be
prohibited from having any contact with the victim; requiring a hearing examiner or
member of the Maryland Parole Commission to consider certain factors before
entering into a predetermined parole release agreement; requiring the Department
of Public Safety and Correctional Services to notify a victim of a violent crime, at
the victim's request, of certain events involving the person convicted of the violent
crime; adding the issuance of a warrant or subpoena for an alleged violation of
parole or mandatory supervision to the types of events of which a victim must be
notified; specifying that the provisions relating to confidentiality of juvenile records
does not prohibit a victim who has filed a notification request form from being
notified of certain proceedings involving the defendant; prohibiting the court after a
defendant has been found incompetent to stand trial from dismissing a charge without
providing the State's Attorney and a victim who has filed a notification request form
advance notice and an opportunity to be heard; making certain stylistic, technical,
and conforming changes; establishing and altering certain definitions; and generally

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