ROBERT L. EHRLICH, JR., Governor                            Ch. 138

INFORMATION THAT MEETS THE SPECIFICATIONS REQUIRED FOR FINANCIAL DATA
MATCH REPORTS UNDER THE FEDERAL PARENT LOCATOR SERVICE.

(3)     A report submitted under paragraph (1) of this subsection shall be
provided to the Comptroller in machine-readable form.

(4)     The Comptroller shall pay the financial institution a reasonable fee,
not to exceed the actual costs incurred by the financial institution to comply with the
requirements of this section, less any fees received from other units of the State for
the same report.

(5)     The Comptroller may institute civil proceedings to enforce this
section.

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

Approved April 27, 2004.

CHAPTER 138
(Senate Bill 783)

AN ACT concerning

Public Safety - Task Force to Study Criminal Offender Monitoring by Global

Positioning Systems

FOR the purpose of establishing a Task Force to Study Criminal Offender Monitoring
by Global Positioning Systems to study how the State can utilize Global
Positioning technology to monitor certain individuals who have committed
criminal offenses, how law enforcement can benefit from linkage to Global
Positioning technology to solve crimes and streamline workload, how such a
system could be financed, and the feasibility of implementing a certain program,
admissibility of evidence issues, and other issues that the Task Force considers
relevant; specifying the membership and duties of the Task Force; requiring the
Task Force to make legislative recommendations; requiring that the Governor,
to the extent possible, make appointments to the Task Force representing
geographically diverse jurisdictions; requiring the Governor to designate the
chairman of the Task Force; requiring the Task Force to meet at the times and
places that the chairman determines; requiring the Task Force to provide
certain reports to the Governor and the General Assembly on or before certain
dates; providing for staffing of the Task Force; providing for the termination of
this Act; and generally relating to a Task Force to Study Criminal Offender
Monitoring by Global Positioning Systems.

SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That:

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