Juvenile proceedings, waiver of juvenile's right to assistance of
counsel, provisions altered ............................................................

Juvenile Services, Department of, Facilities Master Plan and
principles; reports on community-based services,
family-centered aftercare, education, mental and somatic
health, substance abuse, nutrition services, minority
confinement, and staff functions and recruitment; and vendor
contracts, provisions added...........................................................

Juvenile Services Education Program and Coordinating Council
for Juvenile Services Educational Programs, established in
Department of Education for residential facilities of Department
of Juvenile Services........................................................................

Liability insurance policy claim brought by parent for benefit of
minor, settlement provisions added ..............................................

Medically fragile children, placement of, study and report required

Permanency plan for children in out-of-home placements, factors
that a local social services department must consider, altered to
give priority to placing child in jurisdiction where child's parent
or guardian resides; study and report on out-of-home
placements, required ......................................................................

Permanency plan hearings for children committed to out-of-home
placements under child in need of assistance proceedings,
requirements altered......................................................................

Personal flotation devices for children, requirements altered;
report on boating safety for infants, toddlers, and young
children, required ...........................................................................

Residential child care program administrators, certification
provisions added; State Board for Certification of Residential
Child Care Program Administrators, established........................

School for the Blind educational programs, notice of availability to
parents or guardians of blind or visually impaired children,
requirements added .......................................................................

Service credit for certain State Retirement and Pension System
members who were former employees of a private vendor of
child support enforcement services in Baltimore City, provisions
added ...............................................................................................

Sexual solicitation of a minor or a law enforcement officer posing
as a minor, crime and penalty established; interception of
communications for use as evidence and determination of
jurisdiction, provisions added........................................................

Step-down aftercare for children discharged from a committed
juvenile residential placement, requirements added; reports
required ...........................................................................................

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INDEX

Chapter

Page

442	2067
431	1929
432	1954
535	2526
553	2626
281	1040
304	1127
31	223
458	2141
438	2027
372	1352
1	1
4	15
285	1053
481	2242