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PARRIS N. GLENDENING, Governor
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H.B. 495
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10-119.1.
(a) In this section, "conciliation conference" means a conference conducted at a
site designated by the Pilot Pilot Program established under subsection (b) of this
section to provide an opportunity for the parties to resolve issues associated with an
action to modify or enforce a duty of support prior to going to a court proceeding.
(b) (1) Notwithstanding § 13-405 of the State Personnel and Pensions
Article, there is a Child Support Enforcement Privatization Pilot Pilot Program
within the Department.
(2) The Pilot Pilot Program shall operate in Baltimore. City and Queen.
Anne's County.
(c) The purpose of the Pilot Pilot Program is to authorize the Secretary of the
Department to enter into contracts with private companies to privatize all aspects of
child support enforcement functions of the Department, including:
(1) locating absent parents;
(2) establishing paternities;
(3) establishing support orders;
(4) collecting and disbursing support payments;
(5) reviewing and modifying child support orders; and
(6) except for legal representation in accordance with § 10-115 of the
Family Law Article and as otherwise provided by law, enforcing support obligations.
(d) Subject to subsection (h) of this section, the Secretary shall:
(1) adopt regulations that:
(i) require the transfer of all aspects of child support enforcement
to one or more private contractors by November 1, 1996;
(ii) provide for the reimbursement of any private contractor;
(iii) prohibit the cost of transferring child support enforcement to
private contractors as defined in item (ii) of this paragraph from exceeding the fiscal
year 1995 administrative cost per child support dollar collected by the Child Support
Enforcement Administration in the Pilot Pilot Program areas;
(iv) require any private contractor to offer employment upon terms
deemed by the Secretary to be fair and .equitable to any former State employees
working for an existing contractor, who are affected by the transfer of child support
enforcement responsibilities under this section and, to retain any employees who
accept the offer:
1. for the duration of the Pilot Pilot Program unless there is
cause for dismissal; and
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