PARRIS N. GLENDENING, Governor Ch. 386

Section 2-107 8-416

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1997 Replacement Volume)

(As enacted by Section 1 of this Act)

SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That Section(s) 12 of Article 49D - Office for Children, Youth, and
Families of the Annotated Code of Maryland be transferred to be Section(s) 2-107 8-416
of Article - Education of the Annotated Code of Maryland.

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That the Laws of Maryland
read as follows:

1.

Article 49D - Office for Children, Youth, and Families

(d) The following units are in the Office:

(1) Advisory Committee for Children, Youth, and Families:

(2) Children's councils:

(3) Governor's Council on Adolescent Pregnancy;

(4) State Coordinating Council for Residential Placement of Handicapped
Children: AND

(5) [Infants and Toddlers Interagency Coordinating Council; and

(6)] Other multiple agency initiatives for children, youth, and families that
are not reserved by law to another agency.

Article - Education

2-107. 8-416.

(a) The [Office for Children, Youth, and Families] DEPARTMENT shall be the
lead agency for supervising and monitoring a statewide, community-based interagency
system of comprehensive early intervention services to eligible infants and toddlers, birth
through age 2, and their families.

(b) The interagency system shall include the early intervention services provided
or supervised by the State Departments of [Education,] Health and Mental Hygiene,
Human Resources, and Juvenile Justice, AND THE OFFICE FOR CHILDREN, YOUTH,
AND FAMILIES.

(c) The interagency system of early intervention services shall be administered in
accord with the applicable requirements of Federal Public Law 99-457 and other
applicable federal and State laws.

(d) An interagency coordinating council shall be appointed by the Governor, with
the advice and consent of the Senate, and shall:

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