Ch. 358                                   2004 LAWS OF MARYLAND

(3) Adopt rules, regulations, and bylaws as may be necessary to carry out
the provisions of this title.

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That the State Board of
Dental Examiners shall develop and draft regulations concerning the administration
of sedation in accordance with this Act only after having convened and consulted with
a committee consisting of representatives of:

(1)     the Board;

(2)     pediatric dentistry;

(3)     periodontal dentistry;

(4)     oral and maxillofacial surgery;

(5)     general dentistry; and

(6)     any other dental specialty that would be impacted by the regulation
of sedation.

SECTION 3. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That the State Board of
Dental Examiners shall hold one or more public hearings regarding any regulations
proposed in accordance with Section 2 of this Act. The Board shall publish the date of
any hearing held in accordance with this section in the Maryland Register.

SECTION 2. 4. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act shall take
effect October 1, 2004.

Approved May 11, 2004.

CHAPTER 358
(House Bill 575)

AN ACT concerning

Criminal Law - First and Second Degree Escape - Home Detention, Juvenile,
and Custodial Confinement Programs

FOR the purpose of modifying the elements and penalties for escape in the first
degree and escape in the second degree; repealing certain violations of escape in
the first degree involving certain juvenile facilities, home detention orders,
temporary releases from confinement, custodial confinement, and juvenile
community detention orders; establishing those certain violations as escape in
the second degree; prohibiting a person from escaping from certain types of
confinement or restrictions involving juvenile facilities, home detention orders,
temporary releases from confinement, custodial confinement, location tracking
systems, and juvenile community detention orders; prohibiting a person from
knowingly violating certain restrictions on movement, failing to return to certain
places of confinement under certain conditions, and certain tampering with

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