H.B. 343                                                 VETOES

authority to send the registration statement to the Department of Public Safety and
Correctional Services; requiring the Department to maintain a central registry of
certain sexual offenders; requiring the Department to reimburse supervising
authorities for the cost of processing the registration statement; requiring the
Department to transmit the conviction data and fingerprints of a an sexual offender
a registrant to the Federal Bureau of Investigation; requiring the Department to
send a copy of the registration statement to certain persons; requiring the
Department to send written notice of the registration statement to the local law
enforcement agency and county superintendent of schools in the county where the
sexual offender will reside; authorizing the Department and local law enforcement
agencies requiring the Department to provide notice of the registration statement to
specified organizations and person under certain circumstances; allowing certain
local law enforcement agencies to make certain disclosures; providing for certain
disclosures and notices concerning registration statements; providing for the contents
of certain registration statements; requiring a sexual offender a registrant who
changes residence to send written notice of the change to the Department; requiring
the Department to give notice of the change of residence to the local law
enforcement agency in the county where the new residence is located; requiring the
Department to send verification forms to each registered sexual offender registrant
for a specified period of time; altering certain time periods; requiring the Secretary
of Public Safety and Correctional Services to adopt regulations to implement the
Act; requiring the Department to conduct certain public education and awareness
programs; providing for the application of the Act; providing for the construction of
this Act; requiring a certain study; defining certain terms; and generally relating to
sexual the registration of certain offenders.

BY renumbering

Article 27 - Crimes and Punishments

Section 792(d), (e), (f), and (g), respectively

to be Section 792(e), (f), (g), and (d), respectively

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1996 Replacement Volume)

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,
Article 27 - Crimes and Punishments
Section 792

Annotated Code of Maryland
(1996 Replacement Volume)
(As enacted by Section 1 of this Act)

SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That Section(s) 792(d), (e), (f), and (g), respectively, of Article 27 -
Crimes and Punishments of the Annotated Code of Maryland be renumbered to be
Section(s) 792(e), (f), (g), and (d), respectively.

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

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