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SENATE BILL 882
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By: Chair, Joint Committee on Fair Practices and State Personnel Oversight
Introduced and read first time: February 7, 2022
Assigned to: Judicial Proceedings
A BILL ENTITLED
AN ACT concerning 1
Correctional Services – Correctional Officers – Polygraph Testing 2
FOR the purpose of authorizing, instead of requiring, the Secretary of Public Safety and 3
Correctional Services to require an individual to pass a polygraph examination 4
before being appointed to serve as a correctional officer in a correctional facility ; and 5
generally relating to polygraph testing of correctional officers. 6
BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments, 7
Article – Correctional Services 8
Section 3–215(f) 9
Annotated Code of Maryland 10
(2017 Replacement Volume and 2021 Supplement) 11
SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF MARYLAND, 12
That the Laws of Maryland read as follows: 13
Article – Correctional Services 14
3–215. 15
(f) (1) The Secretary [shall] MAY require an individual to pass a polygraph 16
examination before being appointed to serve as a correctional officer in a correctional 17
facility. 18
(2) The Secretary shall adopt regulations governing the administration of 19
the polygraph examination [required] AUTHORIZED under paragraph (1) of this 20
subsection. 21
SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act shall take effect 22
October 1, 2022. 23