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(a)     The Office for Children, Youth, and Families, in coordination with the
Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, the Department of Human Resources,
and the Department of Juvenile Services, shall conduct an analysis and make
recommendations on how the Subcabinet Resources Directory may be used:

(1)     to notify, by electronic mail or other user-friendly means, State and
local elected officials about children's group homes newly licensed in the elected
official's jurisdiction; and

(2)     by State and local elected officials, law enforcement agents, and other
appropriate individuals to quickly identify the owner and agency that licenses a group
home at a particular location.

(b)     The Office shall report the results of its analysis and its recommendations,
in accordance with § 2-1246 of the State Government Article, to the Senate Finance
Committee, the House Health and Government Operations Committee, and the Joint
Committee on Children, Youth, and Families on or before October 1, 2004.

SECTION 3. 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act shall take
effect October 1 July 1, 2004.

Approved May 11, 2004.

CHAPTER 341
(House Bill 418)

AN ACT concerning

Counties - Coal Tax - Annual Meeting and Notice

FOR the purpose of requiring certain county officials to send a certain notice annually
to certain officials of municipal corporations and counties that receive coal tax
revenues; altering the requirement for the county officials to meet and confer
with the officials of municipalities and other counties; and generally relating to
annual meetings and notice for officials of counties and municipal corporations
that receive coal tax revenues.

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,

Article 24 - Political Subdivisions - Miscellaneous Provisions

Section 9-506(a)

Annotated Code of Maryland

(2001 Replacement Volume and 2003 Supplement)

SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That the Laws of Maryland read as follows:

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