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| 3 | 3 | | EXPLANATION: CAPITALS INDICATE MAT TER ADDED TO EXISTIN G LAW. |
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| 4 | 4 | | [Brackets] indicate matter deleted from existing law. |
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| 5 | 5 | | *sb0882* |
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| 7 | 7 | | SENATE BILL 882 |
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| 8 | 8 | | E5 2lr2817 |
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| 10 | 10 | | By: Chair, Joint Committee on Fair Practices and State Personnel Oversight |
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| 11 | 11 | | Introduced and read first time: February 7, 2022 |
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| 12 | 12 | | Assigned to: Judicial Proceedings |
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| 14 | 14 | | A BILL ENTITLED |
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| 16 | 16 | | AN ACT concerning 1 |
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| 18 | 18 | | Correctional Services – Correctional Officers – Polygraph Testing 2 |
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| 20 | 20 | | FOR the purpose of authorizing, instead of requiring, the Secretary of Public Safety and 3 |
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| 21 | 21 | | Correctional Services to require an individual to pass a polygraph examination 4 |
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| 22 | 22 | | before being appointed to serve as a correctional officer in a correctional facility ; and 5 |
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| 23 | 23 | | generally relating to polygraph testing of correctional officers. 6 |
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| 25 | 25 | | BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments, 7 |
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| 26 | 26 | | Article – Correctional Services 8 |
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| 27 | 27 | | Section 3–215(f) 9 |
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| 28 | 28 | | Annotated Code of Maryland 10 |
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| 29 | 29 | | (2017 Replacement Volume and 2021 Supplement) 11 |
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| 31 | 31 | | SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF MARYLAND, 12 |
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| 32 | 32 | | That the Laws of Maryland read as follows: 13 |
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| 34 | 34 | | Article – Correctional Services 14 |
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| 36 | 36 | | 3–215. 15 |
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| 38 | 38 | | (f) (1) The Secretary [shall] MAY require an individual to pass a polygraph 16 |
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| 39 | 39 | | examination before being appointed to serve as a correctional officer in a correctional 17 |
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| 40 | 40 | | facility. 18 |
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| 42 | 42 | | (2) The Secretary shall adopt regulations governing the administration of 19 |
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| 43 | 43 | | the polygraph examination [required] AUTHORIZED under paragraph (1) of this 20 |
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| 44 | 44 | | subsection. 21 |
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| 46 | 46 | | SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act shall take effect 22 |
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| 47 | 47 | | October 1, 2022. 23 |
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