ROBERT L. EHRLICH, JR., Governor                             Ch. 285

(i) the assets to the credit of the local pension system that relate to
the law enforcement officers, FIREFIGHTERS, OR PARAMEDICS who elect to become
members shall be transferred to the Law Enforcement Officers' Pension System; and

(ii) the trustee or other administrative head of the local pension
system shall certify the proportion of the funds of the local pension system that
represents the accumulated contributions of the members as of that date.

(2)     The accumulated contributions shall be credited to the respective
annuity savings accounts of the members in the Law Enforcement Officers' Pension
System.

(3)     The balance of the funds transferred to the Law Enforcement
Officers' Pension System shall be offset against the special accrued liability to be
funded by the participating governmental unit as provided by § 21-306.1(d) of this
article.

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act shall take effect
July 1,2004.

Approved May 11, 2004.

CHAPTER 285
(Senate Bill 512)

AN ACT concerning

Criminal Law - Sexual Solicitation of a Minor

FOR the purpose of prohibiting a person, with intent to commit certain sexual
offenses, from knowingly soliciting a minor, or an individual the person believes
to be a law enforcement officer posing as a minor, to engage in activities that
would be unlawful for the person to engage in under certain provisions;
providing that a certain violation is considered to be committed in the State for
purposes of determining jurisdiction under certain circumstances; establishing a
certain penalty; providing that a certain person may intercept a wire, oral, or
electronic communication in order to provide evidence of the commission of a
certain sexual solicitation of a minor; providing that certain persons may apply
to a judge for, and the judge may grant, an order authorizing the interception of
wire, oral, or electronic communications in order to provide evidence of the
commission of a certain sexual solicitation of a minor; defining a certain term;
and generally relating to the sexual solicitation of a minor.

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,
Article - Courts and Judicial Proceedings
Section 10-402(c)(2) and 10-406
Annotated Code of Maryland
(2002 Replacement Volume and 2003 Supplement)

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