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Maryland House Bill HB127

Maryland 2022 Regular Session

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77 HOUSE BILL 127
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1010 By: Delegate Rosenberg
1111 Requested: August 23, 2021
1212 Introduced and read first time: January 12, 2022
1313 Assigned to: Judiciary and Ways and Means
1414
1515 A BILL ENTITLED
1616
1717 AN ACT concerning 1
1818
1919 Maryland Longitudinal Data System Center – Division of Correction – Data 2
2020 Requirement 3
2121
2222 FOR the purpose of requiring the Division of Correction within the Department of Public 4
2323 Safety and Correctional Services to exchange certain data with the Maryland 5
2424 Longitudinal Data System Center; requiring the Division to establish the duration 6
2525 of data retention; requiring certain data to be collected by the Center; requiring the 7
2626 Center to conduct certain research; adding a member to the Center’s Governing 8
2727 Board; and generally relating to the inclusion of Division of Correction data in the 9
2828 Maryland Longitudinal Data System. 10
2929
3030 BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments, 11
3131 Article – Correctional Services 12
3232 Section 3–608 13
3333 Annotated Code of Maryland 14
3434 (2017 Replacement Volume and 2021 Supplement) 15
3535
3636 BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments, 16
3737 Article – Education 17
3838 Section 24–701, 24–703(f), 24–704(b), and 24–707(a) 18
3939 Annotated Code of Maryland 19
4040 (2018 Replacement Volume and 2021 Supplement) 20
4141
4242 BY repealing and reenacting, without amendments, 21
4343 Article – Education 22
4444 Section 24–703(a) and 24–704(a) 23
4545 Annotated Code of Maryland 24
4646 (2018 Replacement Volume and 2021 Supplement) 25
4747 2 HOUSE BILL 127
4848
4949
5050 SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF MARYLAND, 1
5151 That the Laws of Maryland read as follows: 2
5252
5353 Article – Correctional Services 3
5454
5555 3–608. 4
5656
5757 (a) (1) To increase efficiency in the treatment, management, and 5
5858 rehabilitation of inmates confined in correctional facilities in the Division, the Division and 6
5959 the Division of Parole and Probation shall exchange records and any other pertinent 7
6060 information that relates to an inmate. 8
6161
6262 (2) TO TRACK INCARCERATIO N AND RECIDIVISM OUTCOMES FOR THE 9
6363 STATE, THE DIVISION SHALL EXCHAN GE RECORDS AND ANY O THER PERTINENT 10
6464 INFORMATION THAT REL ATES TO A CURRENT OR FORMER INMATE WITH T HE 11
6565 MARYLAND LONGITUDINAL DATA SYSTEM CENTER ESTABLISHED UN DER TITLE 24, 12
6666 SUBTITLE 7 OF THE EDUCATION ARTICLE. 13
6767
6868 (b) The Division and the Division of Parole and Probation shall establish the 14
6969 procedures and methods for the exchange of records , THE DURATION OF DATA 15
7070 RETENTION, and other information in subsection (a) of this section. 16
7171
7272 Article – Education 17
7373
7474 24–701. 18
7575
7676 (a) In this subtitle the following words have the meanings indicated. 19
7777
7878 (b) “Center” means the Maryland Longitudinal Data System Center. 20
7979
8080 (c) (1) “Child welfare data” means data relating to a child’s experience with 21
8181 child protective services, family preservation services, and State–sponsored out–of–home 22
8282 services. 23
8383
8484 (2) “Child welfare data” includes: 24
8585
8686 (i) Out–of–home placement data, including: 25
8787
8888 1. Supervising jurisdiction; 26
8989
9090 2. Removal reason; 27
9191
9292 3. Characteristics at the time of removal; 28
9393
9494 4. Return reason; 29
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9696
9797
9898 5. Placement start and end dates; and 1
9999
100100 6. Placement type; 2
101101
102102 (ii) Family preservation services data, including: 3
103103
104104 1. Supervising jurisdiction; 4
105105
106106 2. Type of family preservation service; and 5
107107
108108 3. Service start and end dates; and 6
109109
110110 (iii) Child protective services data, including: 7
111111
112112 1. Responsible jurisdiction; 8
113113
114114 2. Type of child protective service response; 9
115115
116116 3. Date on which child protective services responded; 10
117117
118118 4. Alleged maltreatment type; 11
119119
120120 5. Disposition of an investigative response by child protective 12
121121 services; and 13
122122
123123 6. Date on which child protective services completes a 14
124124 response. 15
125125
126126 (D) “CORRECTIONAL SERVICES DATA” MEANS ARREST AND 16
127127 INCARCERATION DATA O F THE DIVISION OF CORRECTION WITHIN THE 17
128128 DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SAFETY AND CORRECTIONAL SERVICES. 18
129129
130130 [(d)] (E) “De–identified data” means a data set in which parent and student 19
131131 identity information, including the State Assigned Student Identifier and student Social 20
132132 Security number, has been removed. 21
133133
134134 [(e)] (F) “Governing Board” means the Governing Board of the Maryland 22
135135 Longitudinal Data System Center. 23
136136
137137 [(f)] (G) (1) “Industry certificate” means a certificate or license awarded by 24
138138 an industry certifier that prepares an individual to work in a career field. 25
139139
140140 (2) “Industry certificate” does not include a business license or vocational 26
141141 certificate. 27
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143143
144144
145145 [(g)] (H) “Industry certifier” means a nationally recognized, third–party entity 1
146146 using predetermined standards for knowledge and skills that prepare an individual to work 2
147147 in a career field. 3
148148
149149 [(h)] (I) “License” means an occupational or professional license issued to an 4
150150 individual under the Business Occupations and Professions Article, the Business 5
151151 Regulation Article, or the Health Occupations Article. 6
152152
153153 [(i)] (J) “Licensing authority” means a State entity that issues a license to an 7
154154 individual. 8
155155
156156 [(j)] (K) (1) “Personally identifiable information” means data that can be 9
157157 used to identify a particular individual and match that individual’s student or workforce 10
158158 record across different data sources. 11
159159
160160 (2) “Personally identifiable information” includes: 12
161161
162162 (i) Name; 13
163163
164164 (ii) Date of birth; and 14
165165
166166 (iii) Social Security number, SASID, or other government–assigned 15
167167 identification number. 16
168168
169169 [(k)] (L) “State Assigned Student Identifier” or “SASID” means the identifier 17
170170 assigned to each student by: 18
171171
172172 (1) A local education agency based on the identifier system developed by 19
173173 the State Department of Education; or 20
174174
175175 (2) An institution of higher education, if the student has not been assigned 21
176176 an identifier by a local education agency. 22
177177
178178 [(l)] (M) (1) “Student data” means data relating to or impacting student 23
179179 performance. 24
180180
181181 (2) “Student data” includes: 25
182182
183183 (i) State and national assessments; 26
184184
185185 (ii) Course–taking and completion; 27
186186
187187 (iii) Grade point average; 28
188188
189189 (iv) Remediation; 29
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191191
192192
193193 (v) Retention; 1
194194
195195 (vi) Degree, diploma, or credential attainment; 2
196196
197197 (vii) Enrollment; 3
198198
199199 (viii) Demographic data; 4
200200
201201 (ix) Juvenile delinquency records; 5
202202
203203 (x) Elementary and secondary school disciplinary records; 6
204204
205205 (xi) Child welfare data; 7
206206
207207 (xii) License, industry certificate, or vocational certificate; [and] 8
208208
209209 (xiii) Personally identifiable information; AND 9
210210
211211 (XIV) CORRECTIONAL SERVICES DATA. 10
212212
213213 (3) “Student data” does not include: 11
214214
215215 (i) [Criminal and] CINA records; and 12
216216
217217 (ii) Medical and health records. 13
218218
219219 [(m)] (N) “Vocational certificate” means a certificate or license awarded by an 14
220220 institution of postsecondary education approved to operate under § 11–202 of this article 15
221221 on completion of a course of study, including credit–bearing and noncredit courses, that 16
222222 prepares an individual to work in a career field. 17
223223
224224 [(n)] (O) “Workforce data” means data about employees relating to: 18
225225
226226 (1) Employment status; 19
227227
228228 (2) Wage information; 20
229229
230230 (3) Geographic location of employment; 21
231231
232232 (4) Employer information; and 22
233233
234234 (5) Personally identifiable information. 23
235235
236236 24–703. 24
237237
238238 (a) There is a Maryland Longitudinal Data System Center. 25 6 HOUSE BILL 127
239239
240240
241241
242242 (f) The Center shall perform the following functions and duties: 1
243243
244244 (1) Serve as a central repository of student data [and], workforce data, 2
245245 AND CORRECTIONAL SER VICES DATA in the Maryland Longitudinal Data System, 3
246246 including data sets provided by: 4
247247
248248 (i) The State Department of Education; 5
249249
250250 (ii) Local education agencies; 6
251251
252252 (iii) The Maryland Higher Education Commission; 7
253253
254254 (iv) Institutions of higher education; 8
255255
256256 (v) The Maryland Department of Labor; 9
257257
258258 (vi) The Department of Juvenile Services; [and] 10
259259
260260 (vii) The Social Services Administration within the Department of 11
261261 Human Services; AND 12
262262
263263 (VIII) THE DIVISION OF CORRECTION WITHIN THE DEPARTMENT 13
264264 OF PUBLIC SAFETY AND CORRECTIONAL SERVICES; 14
265265
266266 (2) Oversee and maintain the warehouse of the Maryland Longitudinal 15
267267 Data System data sets; 16
268268
269269 (3) Ensure routine and ongoing compliance with the federal Family 17
270270 Educational Rights and Privacy Act and other relevant privacy laws and policies, including: 18
271271
272272 (i) The required use of de–identified data in data research and 19
273273 reporting; 20
274274
275275 (ii) The required disposition of information that is no longer needed; 21
276276
277277 (iii) Providing data security, including the capacity for audit trails; 22
278278
279279 (iv) Providing for performance of regular audits for compliance with 23
280280 data privacy and security standards; and 24
281281
282282 (v) Implementing guidelines and policies that prevent the reporting 25
283283 of other potentially identifying data; 26
284284
285285 (4) Conduct research using timely and accurate student data [and], 27
286286 workforce data, AND CORRECTIONAL SERVICE S DATA to improve the State’s education 28 HOUSE BILL 127 7
287287
288288
289289 system and guide decision making by State and local governments, educational agencies, 1
290290 institutions, teachers, and other education professionals; 2
291291
292292 (5) Conduct research relating to: 3
293293
294294 (i) The impact of State and federal education programs; 4
295295
296296 (ii) The performance of educator preparation programs; 5
297297
298298 (iii) Best practices regarding classroom instruction, education 6
299299 programs and curriculum, and segment alignment; [and] 7
300300
301301 (iv) The impact child welfare programs have on the educational and 8
302302 economic outcomes of students; AND 9
303303
304304 (V) CORRECTIONAL SERVICES DATA, EXPRESSED IN NUMBERS 10
305305 AND PERCENTAGES , INCLUDING A CURRENT OR FORMER INMATE’S: 11
306306
307307 1. PARTICIPATION IN A PR ISON–BASED EDUCATION OR 12
308308 TRAINING PROGRAM OF THE MARYLAND DEPARTMENT OF LABOR; 13
309309
310310 2. PARTICIPATION IN A WO RK RELEASE OR OTHER 14
311311 TRANSITION PROGRAM O F THE MARYLAND DEPARTMENT OF LABOR; 15
312312
313313 3. AGE, RACE, GENDER, TYPE OF OFFENSE , SENTENCE 16
314314 LENGTH, AND TYPE OF RELEASE ; AND 17
315315
316316 4. RATE OF RECIDIVISM, INCLUDING AN INMATE ’S 18
317317 REASON FOR INCARCERA TION; 19
318318
319319 (6) At the direction of the Accountability and Implementation Board 20
320320 established in Title 5, Subtitle 4 of this article provide: 21
321321
322322 (i) A researcher designated by the Board access to the data in the 22
323323 Maryland Longitudinal Data System in accordance with the procedures for staff 23
324324 authorization and data access established by the Maryland Longitudinal Data System 24
325325 governing board; 25
326326
327327 (ii) Aggregate data tables; or 26
328328
329329 (iii) Research or evaluation; 27
330330
331331 (7) Analyze social determinants from the following State agencies and 28
332332 appropriate local agencies that impact the education performance of students and indicate 29
333333 the need for wraparound services of students: 30
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335335
336336
337337 (i) The Maryland Department of Health; 1
338338
339339 (ii) The Department of Juvenile Services; [and] 2
340340
341341 (iii) The Department of Human Services; 3
342342
343343 (IV) THE MARYLAND DEPARTMENT OF LABOR; AND 4
344344
345345 (V) THE DIVISION OF CORRECTION WITHIN THE DEPARTMENT 5
346346 OF PUBLIC SAFETY AND CORRECTIONAL SERVICES; 6
347347
348348 (8) To the extent practicable, conduct longitudinal studies of the items 7
349349 under this section to evaluate the impact of The Blueprint for Maryland’s Future on the 8
350350 State; 9
351351
352352 (9) Fulfill information and data requests to facilitate State and federal 10
353353 education reporting with existing State agencies as appropriate; and 11
354354
355355 (10) Fulfill approved public information requests. 12
356356
357357 24–704. 13
358358
359359 (a) There is a Governing Board of the Center. 14
360360
361361 (b) The Governing Board shall include the following members: 15
362362
363363 (1) The Secretary of Higher Education, or the Secretary’s designee; 16
364364
365365 (2) The Chancellor of the University System of Maryland, or the 17
366366 Chancellor’s designee; 18
367367
368368 (3) The President of Morgan State University, or the President’s designee; 19
369369
370370 (4) The State Superintendent of Schools, or the Superintendent’s designee; 20
371371
372372 (5) The Secretary of Juvenile Services, or the Secretary’s designee; 21
373373
374374 (6) The Secretary of Labor, or the Secretary’s designee; 22
375375
376376 (7) The Secretary of Human Services, or the Secretary’s designee; 23
377377
378378 (8) THE SECRETARY OF PUBLIC SAFETY AND CORRECTIONAL 24
379379 SERVICES, OR THE SECRETARY’S DESIGNEE; 25
380380
381381 (9) A representative of local superintendents of schools, appointed by the 26
382382 Governor with the advice and consent of the Senate; 27 HOUSE BILL 127 9
383383
384384
385385
386386 [(9)] (10) A representative of the executive directors of the health 1
387387 occupations boards, appointed by the Governor with the advice and consent of the Senate; 2
388388
389389 [(10)] (11) The Executive Director of the Maryland Association of 3
390390 Community Colleges, or the Executive Director’s designee; 4
391391
392392 [(11)] (12) The President of the Maryland Independent College and 5
393393 University Association, or the President’s designee; and 6
394394
395395 [(12)] (13) Four members of the public, appointed by the Governor with the 7
396396 advice and consent of the Senate. 8
397397
398398 24–707. 9
399399
400400 (a) Local education agencies, community colleges, public senior higher education 10
401401 institutions, the Department of Human Services, and other State agencies shall: 11
402402
403403 (1) Make every effort to comply with the data requirements and 12
404404 implementation schedule for the Maryland Longitudinal Data System as set forth by the 13
405405 Governing Board; and 14
406406
407407 (2) Transfer student data [and], workforce data, AND CORRECTIONAL 15
408408 SERVICES DATA to the Maryland Longitudinal Data System in accordance with the data 16
409409 security and safeguarding plan developed under § 24–704(g)(6) of this subtitle. 17
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411411 SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act shall take effect July 18
412412 1, 2022. 19