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PARRIS N. GLENDENING, Governor Ch. 671
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local departments of social services to develop, submit, and implement local
plans and report the success of those plans to the Secretary; requiring the use of
on-site addictions specialists in the screening and assessment of adult or minor
applicants for or recipients of assistance under certain circumstances; altering
certain procedures related to screening and assessment; providing for a waiver
from a certain federal act relating to the barring of public assistance to certain
individuals who have been convicted of certain felonies relating to controlled
dangerous substances; requiring the testing and treatment of an applicant for or
recipient of public assistance who has been convicted of those felonies after a
certain date, notwithstanding the waiver; making certain individuals who have
been convicted of certain felonies relating to controlled dangerous substances
ineligible for certain assistance for a certain period from the date of conviction;
providing for the imposition of certain sanctions under certain circumstances;
requiring the Secretary of Human Resources to adopt regulations to establish
testing methods and procedures and requiring those methods and procedures to
be consistent with certain existing methods and procedures; permitting a
certain noncompetitive negotiation process to procure certain services under the
Family Investment Program; permitting the use of certain prequalified bidders
or offerors to procure certain services under the Family Investment Program;
requiring the Secretary of Human Resources and the Secretary of Health and
Mental Hygiene to report on these efforts the implementation of certain
provisions of this Act to certain committees of the General Assembly by a certain
date certain dates; requiring the Secretary of Human Resources to submit certain
reports, including recommendations regarding enactment of federal legislation
on child support pass through to certain individuals, to a certain committee on
certain dates; requiring the Departments of Human Resources and Health and
Mental Hygiene to ensure certain treatment is available to certain individuals;
repealing existing law relating to when the payment of temporary cash assistance
begins; requiring a report by the Department of Human Resources on its plan to
extend categorical eligibility for food stamps to certain families receiving certain
benefits by a certain date; providing for the termination of certain provisions of
this Act; defining a certain term; providing for the termination of certain
provisions of this Act; and generally relating to improving the level of jobs, and
access to those jobs for Family Investment Program recipients and to
demonstration programs under the Family Investment Program.
BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,
Article 88A - Department of Human Resources
Section 46, 48(b) through (e), 50, and 50A
Annotated Code of Maryland
(1998 Replacement Volume and 1999 Supplement)
BY adding to
Article 88A - Department of Human Resources
Section 55 and 65A
Annotated Code of Maryland
(1998 Replacement Volume and 1999 Supplement)
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