Ch. 312

1997 LAWS OF MARYLAND

(b) If the funds of a unit of the State government are not part of the State
Treasury, the Centra) Collection Unit shall deliver to the Treasurer the net proceeds of
collection on a debt or claim that was due to the unit of the State government for its
account.

(c) All fees collected under § 3-304(a)(2) of this subtitle shall be credited to the
Central Collection Fund established under § 3-306 of this subtitle.

(d) The Central Collection Unit shall deliver the net proceeds of collections from
defendants OR LIABLE PARENTS in arrears on restitution payments to the Division of
Parole and Probation OR THE DEPARTMENT OF JUVENILE JUSTICE to be forwarded by
the Division OR DEPARTMENT to the victim or other appropriate person or agency in
accordance with the order JUDGMENT of restitution.

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act shall take effect
October 1, 1997.

Approved May 8, 1997.

CHAPTER 312
(House Bill 768)

AN ACT concerning

Victims' Rights Act of 1997

FOR the purpose of establishing that certain evidence relating to a victim's prior sexual
conduct is not admissible in a prosecution for attempted rape or attempted sexual
offense in the first or second degree; requiring the Maryland Parole Commission to
notify certain victims, in writing, within a certain period of time prior to entering
into or approving a predetermined parole release agreement with an inmate;
prohibiting the Maryland Parole Commission from entering into a predetermined
parole release agreement unless it has notified the victim under this Act; expanding
certain victims' rights laws to include juvenile proceedings and victims who file a
notification request form; authorizing a District Court commissioner or an intake
officer, under certain circumstances, to impose certain conditions of pretrial release
on a defendant; expanding the requirement that a District Court commissioner
consider a certain condition of pretrial release in a stalking case to apply to any
criminal case felony; and requiring a juvenile intake officer to consider a certain
condition when releasing certain juveniles pretrial; requiring the clerk, under
certain circumstances, to include a copy of a notification request form with a
probation order; authorizing, under certain circumstances, certain judicial officers
or a law enforcement officer, to withhold the release prior to trial of certain
information relating to a victim or witness; providing that only the State may make
a motion to prohibit the release of certain information during a criminal trial;
limiting the number of attorneys that may be present when a child testifies by closed
circuit television, when a judge hears testimony on whether to allow a child to testify
by closed circuit television, or at an in camera examination to determine whether to

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