State agency; authorizing any State agency authorized to license residential
educational facilities to make certain cooperative arrangements with any other
State agency; providing for the construction and application of this Act; defining
a certain term; altering a certain term; and generally relating to licensing of
residential educational facilities.

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,
Article - Family Law
Section 5-501 and 5-506
Annotated Code of Maryland
(1999 Replacement Volume)

BY adding to

Article - Family Law
Section 5-509.1
Annotated Code of Maryland
(1999 Replacement Volume)

SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That the Laws of Maryland read as follows:

Article - Family Law

5-501.

(a) In this subtitle the following words have the meanings indicated.

(b) "Administration" means the Social Services Administration of the
Department.

(c) "Child placement agency" has the meaning stated in § 5-301 of this title.

(d) "Day care provider" means the adult who has primary responsibility for
the operation of a family day care home.

(e) "Family day care" means the care given to a child under the age of 13 years
or to any developmentally disabled person under the age of 21 years of age, in place of
parental care for less than 24 hours a day, in a residence other than the child's
residence, for which the day care provider is paid.

(f) "Family day care home" means a residence in which family day care is
provided.

(g) "Foster care" means continuous 24-hour care and supportive services
provided for a minor child placed by a child placement agency in an approved family
home.

(h) "Group care" means continuous 24-hour care and supportive services
provided for a minor child placed in a licensed group facility.