Family Investment Administration of the Department of Human Resources to
develop a certain process addressing cash assistance payment errors; requiring
the Executive Director to require all local departments of social services to submit
certain plans and to monitor the local departments' success in achieving the
objectives of. the plans; requiring the Department of Human Resources to conduct
or contract for a certain audit of each local department and to prepare a certain
report; requiring the audit to comply with certain auditing standards; providing
grant funds from the Maryland Training Program to fund job skills
enhancement pilot programs to provide upgrade training for certain Family in
Need of Assistance (FIP) recipients; altering the reimbursement of private
contractors for child support enforcement services under the Child Support
Enforcement Privatization Program; requiring a private contractor to offer
employment upon certain terms to certain former State employees working for
an existing contractor and to retain certain employees for a certain duration and
at a certain salary; repealing a certain provision pertaining to a certain
consultant for the Pilot Program; altering the responsibility of the Secretary of
Human Resources to provide certain job assistance to certain employees;
authorizing the Secretary, in consultation with certain directors of certain local
departments of social services, to expand child support enforcement
demonstration sites to additional jurisdictions; clarifying certain retirement
rights of certain former State employees hired by a private contractor under the
Child Support Enforcement Privatization Pilot Program; extending the
termination date for the Child Support Enforcement Privatization Pilot
Program; stating the intent of the General Assembly with regard to certain
demonstration sites and with regard to continuation of Medicaid benefits under
certain circumstances; requiring the Department of Human Resources to submit
a certain report; requiring that the Secretary of Budget and Management
establish a. hiring program for welfare recipients; requiring certain reports on
the hiring of welfare recipients; and generally relating to the Department of
Human Resources, the Family Investment Program, and the Child Support
Enforcement Privatization Pilot Program and job enhancement skills programs
for certain welfare recipients.

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,

Article 88A - Department of Human Resources
Section 53A 1A and 3(a)
Annotated Code of Maryland
(1998 Replacement Volume)

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,
Article - Family Law

Section 10-119.1 and 10-119.2(a) through (f) 10-119.2
Annotated Code of Maryland
(1999 Replacement Volume)

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,

Chapter 491 of the Acts of the General Assembly of 1995