Senate Bill 720

AN ACT concerning

Department of Human Resources - Welfare and Child Support Enforcement

Innovation Act of 1999

FOR the purpose of requiring the Executive Director of the 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; altering
the reimbursement of private contractors for child support enforcement services
under the Child Support Enforcement Privatization Pilot 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; altering the
responsibility of the Secretary of Human Resources to provide certain job
assistance to certain employees; repealing certain provisions repealing a certain
provision pertaining to a certain consultant for the Pilot Program and to an
employee who declines an offer of employment with a private contractor;
authorizing the Secretary, in consultation with the director of a certain local
department 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; making certain technical corrections; 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
funding for a certain pilot program be provided at a certain level; 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.

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,

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

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,