Social Services —

SEE ALSO Welfare

Additional State employee positions to provide services through
local departments of social services, provisions added; report
required ...........................................................................................

Administration, appropriation to......................................................

Advance directives information sheet, development and
distribution to the public, requirements added ...........................

Baltimore City -

Department of Social Services, closure or consolidation of local
branch office, report on plan or proposal, requirements added

Burial assistance payments, appropriation for ...............................

Caseworker and supervisor positions, minimum number required
to be filled in order to expend certain appropriated amounts,
provisions added .............................................................................

Child welfare services, appropriation for local operations .............

Children's Electronic Social Services Information Exchange (MD

CHESSIE), appropriation restrictions ..........................................

Community Services Administration, appropriation to..................

Health and Human Services Referral Board, established; Health
and Human Services Referral System, provisions added ...........

Individual development accounts, provisions repealed...................

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 ...........................................................

Local Departments -
Appropriation for ............................................................................

Audit reports, distribution requirements added ..........................

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 ......................................................................

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

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INDEX

Chapter

Page

429	1812
429	1701
	1806
356	1296
429	1705
429	1787
429	1705
429	1705
	1842
429	1700
429	1702
	1787
390	1410
430	1926
431	1929
432	1954
429	1705
	1787
430	1861
304	1127
481	2242