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PARRIS N. GLENDENING, Governor
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S.B. 454
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Sincerely,
Parris N. Glendening
Governor
Senate Bill No. 454
AN ACT concerning
Pilot Program for Long-Term Employment of Qualified Ex-Felons
FOR the purpose of creating a Pilot Program for Long-Term Employment of Qualified
Ex-Felons; requiring the Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services
Labor, Licensing, and Regulation to establish the pilot program in consultation
with the Governor's Workforce Investment Board; requiring the Department to
purchase certain bonds for a certain number of qualified ex-felons each year
and to provide certain bonds to certain one-stop career centers; requiring that
the pilot program be implemented by certain one-stop career centers in a
certain number of Workforce Investment Areas; requiring a one-stop center that
participates in the pilot program to work with certain entities to encourage
referral and participation of qualified ex-felons, to provide certain outreach and
education, and to develop a certain evaluation process; requiring a one-stop
center to apply to the Department for designation as a pilot program location;
requiring the Department in consultation with the Governor's Workforce
Investment Board to designate certain one-stop centers as pilot program
locations and to consider certain information; allowing a credit against the State
income tax for certain wages paid by certain business entities with respect to
certain ex-felon employees; providing for the calculation and use of the credit;
defining certain terms; requiring a certain addition modification if a certain
credit is claimed; requiring a certain certification prior to claiming the credit;
prohibiting an employer from claiming the credit under certain circumstances;
providing for the administration of the tax credits; requiring the Department of
Public Safety and Correctional Services Labor, Licensing, and Regulation to
adopt certain regulations; requiring the Comptroller to adopt certain
regulations; providing for the application of this Act; providing for the
termination of this Act; providing for the effective date of certain provisions of
this Act; providing for the termination of certain provisions of this Act; and
generally relating to the Pilot Program for Long-Term Employment of Qualified
Ex-Felons.
BY adding to
Article - Labor and Employment Section 11-701 through 11-705 to be under
the new subtitle "Subtitle 7. Pilot Program for the Long-Term
Employment of Qualified Ex-Felons"
Annotated Code of Maryland
(1999 Replacement Volume and 2001 Supplement)
BY adding to
Article—Correctional Services
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