PARRIS N. GLENDENING, Governor
CHAPTER 36
(Senate Bill 262)

Ch. 36

AN ACT concerning

Private Home Detention Monitors and Agencies - Criminal History Records

Checks

FOR the purpose of requiring the Criminal Justice Information System Central
Repository of the Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services to
forward certain printed statements derived from State and national criminal
history records checks to the individual who is the subject of the checks;
repealing a provision that allows certain criminal history record information to
be disseminated to a private home detention monitoring agency intending to
employ the individual as a home detention monitor; repealing language that
allows an individual to contest the finding of a pending charge and provides that
certain documentation is conclusive evidence of the pending charge; and
generally relating to State and national criminal history records checks that are
required as a part of the licensing process for private home detention monitoring
agencies and private home detention monitors.

BY repealing and reenacting, without amendments,
Article - Business Occupations and Professions
Section 20-101 and 20-303(c)
Annotated Code of Maryland

(1995 Replacement Volume and 1998 Supplement)

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,

Article - Business Occupations and Professions
Section 20-305 and 20-306
Annotated Code of Maryland

(1995 Replacement Volume and 1998 Supplement)

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

Article - Business Occupations and Professions

20-101.

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

(b) "Private home detention monitor" means an employee of a licensed private
home detention monitoring agency who personally monitors individuals who are
under a court order that requires monitoring by a private home detention monitoring
agency.