Judicial Circuit. The Chief Judge and the Secretary should develop the plan with
input from the Administrative Judge of the Eighth Judicial Circuit, the
Administrative Judge of the District Court for Baltimore City, the Mayor of Baltimore
City, the State's Attorney for Baltimore City, the Public Defender, and the
Commissioner of the Baltimore City Police Department. In developing the plan, the
Chief Judge and the Secretary should consider at least the following items: operating
night courts, giving the State's Attorney final approval of charges, reducing vertical
representation practices by the Public Defender and the State's Attorney, providing
Public Defender representation at arraignment and bail hearings to defendants
eligible for representation by the Office of the Public Defender, eliminating remote
booking, increasing the budget of the State's Attorney's Office, ensuring Baltimore
City police officers attend all trials for which they are called, and improving
information technology and management practices. The plan shall include provisions
for monitoring implementation by the Chief Judge and the Secretary and for
quarterly statue reports beginning October 1, 1990, to the budget committees and the
judiciary committees. The plan shall include performance measures and a time frame
for implementation and results. The plan shall also identify the person responsible for
each element of the plan.

(3) The Chief Judge and the Secretary shall submit the plan to the

budget committees and the judiciary committees. The budget committees and the
judiciary committees shall have 45 days from the receipt of the plan for review and

comment.

SECTION 35. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That the general fund
appropriations made in the following State agencies may not be expended
until the Chief Judge of the Court of Appeals (hereinafter referred to as
"Chief Judge") has, with the full cooperation from the Administrative Office
of the Courts, the Secretary of the Department of Public Safety and
Correctional Services, the Office of the Public Defender, and the Baltimore
City Criminal Justice Coordinating Council (hereinafter referred to as
"stakeholders"), prepared and submitted a plan to the budget committees
which addresses the provisions outlined under subsections (1) through (4) of
this section:

Agency	Program	Program	General Funds
Judiciary	CA00.01	Court of Appeals	300,000
	CA00.04	District Court	3,000,000
	CA00.10	Clerks of the Circuit Court	5,000,000
Public Defender	CB00.02	District Operations	1,000,000
DPSCS-DPDS	QP00.01	General Administration	1,500,000
	QP00.04	Central Booking and Intake	1,700,000
		Facility
Department of State Police	WA01.07	Local Aid - Law	5,300,000
	Enforcement Grants

(1) The Chief Judge, with the stakeholders who shall work
cooperatively with the Chief Judge, shall fully evaluate the delay,
postponement, and dismissal problems in the Baltimore City criminal justice