PARRIS N. GLENDENING, Governor

Ch. 368

exception; including within part of the investigation of a suspected case of neglect
by the use of a controlled dangerous substance by the mother of an infant certain
tests and a certain report to the local division of social services; and generally
relating to the neglect of a child by the use of a controlled dangerous substance.

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,
Article—Family Law
Section 5-701(p) and 5-706(c)
Annotated Code of Maryland
(1991 Replacement Volume and 1996 Supplement)

FOR the purpose of establishing that there is a presumption that a child is not receiving
ordinary and proper care and attention within the definition of ''child in need of
assistance" if the child is born addicted to or dependent on certain controlled
dangerous substances or born with a significant presence of certain controlled
dangerous substances in the blood; altering certain conditions regarding the
termination of certain parental rights for certain children to include children born
addicted to. dependent on. or with a significant presence in the child's blood of
certain controlled dangerous substances and the parent refuses admission or fails to
fully participate in certain drug treatment programs; requiring the Department of
Human Resources, in cooperation with the Department of Health and Mental
Hygiene, to develop certain intervention systems in at least a certain number of
counties designated by the Secretary of Human Resources that include certain drug
treatment for certain mothers; requiring the initiation of certain intervention under
certain circumstances; requiring a CINA petition to be filed on behalf of certain
children under certain circumstances; authorizing a local department of social
services to take certain actions under certain circumstances; making this Act subject
to a certain contingency: and generally relating to children born addicted to,
dependent on, or with a significant presence in the child's blood of certain
controlled dangerous substances.

BY repealing and reenacting, without amendments.
Article - Courts and Judicial Proceedings
Section 3-801(a)
Annotated Code of Maryland
(1995 Replacement Volume and 1996 Supplement)

BY repealing and reenacting. with amendments,
Article - Courts and Judicial Proceedings
Section 3-801(6)
Annotated Code of Maryland
(1995 Replacement Volume and 1996 Supplement)

BY adding to

Article - Courts and Judicial Proceedings

Section 3-801.1

Annotated Code of Maryland

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