Ch. 481

2004 LAWS OF MARYLAND

Department by the tenant shall escheat to the State. The Department shall annually
transfer any funds that remain uncollected after 20 years to the State General Fund
at the end of each fiscal year.

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

Approved May 26, 2004.

CHAPTER 481
(Senate Bill 767)

AN ACT concerning

Juvenile Services - Step-Down Aftercare

FOR the purpose of requiring a child discharged from a committed residential
placement to receive certain step-down aftercare for a period to be determined
by the Department of Juvenile Services; requiring a child in a step-down
aftercare program to receive certain services; requiring a step-down aftercare
team to perform certain duties; requiring a child placed in stop down aftercare
to receive an appropriate education from the State Department of Education;
requiring the Department of Juvenile Services step-down aftercare staff to keep
certain records and file certain reports; requiring the State Department of
Education to make certain determinations of certain amounts owed to the State
Department of Education by certain counties; requiring a certain county to
reimburse the State Department of Education under certain circumstances;
requiring the State Department of Education to take certain actions;
authorizing an appeal of a certain determination by the State Department of
Education to the State Superintendent of schools; requiring the State
Superintendent to decide certain appeals; requiring county boards of education
to provide certain data to the State Superintendent; authorizing the State
Superintendent to make certain deductions from certain payments of State aid
to certain counties in a certain amount; defining certain terms; requiring the
Department to submit a certain report; and generally relating to juvenile
services.

BY adding to

Article 83C — Juvenile Services
Section 2-127.1 and 2- 127.2
Annotated Code of Maryland
(2003 Replacement Volume)

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

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