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SENATE BILL 652
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By: Senator McCray
Introduced and read first time: January 29, 2024
Assigned to: Judicial Proceedings
Committee Report: Favorable with amendments
Senate action: Adopted
Read second time: February 27, 2024
CHAPTER ______
AN ACT concerning 1
Department of Juvenile Services – Report on Shootings 2
(Department of Juvenile Services Transparency Act of 2024) 3
FOR the purpose of requiring the Department of Juvenile Services to report certain 4
information regarding shootings of and by juveniles under the supervision of the 5
Department to the Commission on Juvenile Justice Reform and Emerging and Best 6
Practices and the Maryland General Assembly; and generally relating to the 7
Department of Juvenile Services. 8
BY adding to 9
Article – Human Services 10
Section 9–247 11
Annotated Code of Maryland 12
(2019 Replacement Volume and 2023 Supplement) 13
SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF MARYLAND, 14
That the Laws of Maryland read as follows: 15
Article – Human Services 16
9–247. 17
(A) ON OR BEFORE DECEMBER 1, 2024, AND EACH DECEMBER 1 18
THEREAFTER , THE DEPARTMENT SHALL REPO RT TO THE COMMISSION ON 19
JUVENILE JUSTICE REFORM AND EMERGING AND BEST PRACTICES AND , IN 20 2 SENATE BILL 652
ACCORDANCE WITH § 2–1257 OF THE STATE GOVERNMENT ARTICLE, TO THE 1
GENERAL ASSEMBLY ON: 2
(1) THE NUMBER OF JUVENI LES UNDER THE DEPARTMENT ’S 3
SUPERVISION IN THE P RECEDING YEAR WHO : 4
(I) WERE NONFATALLY SHOT ; 5
(II) SHOT ANOTHER INDIVIDU AL; OR 6
(III) WERE VICTIMS OF A HO MICIDE; 7
(2) THE ACTIONS THAT THE DEPARTMENT TOOK AFTER THE 8
INCIDENTS DESCRIBED IN ITEM (1) OF THIS SUBSECTION , INCLUDING THE TIMELI NE 9
OF THE ACTIONS ; 10
(3) THE AGE OF EACH JUVE NILE DESCRIBED IN ITEM (1) OF THIS 11
SUBSECTION; AND 12
(4) THE COUNTY OF RESIDE NCE OF EACH JUVENILE DESCRIBED IN 13
ITEM (1) OF THIS SUBSECTION . 14
(B) THE INITIAL REPORT SU BMITTED UNDER THIS S ECTION SHALL 15
INCLUDE A DESCRIPTIO N OF ANY ESTABLISHED PROCESS THAT THE DEPARTMENT 16
USES AFTER AN INCIDENT DE SCRIBED IN SUBSECTIO N (A)(1) OF THIS SECTION 17
OCCURS. 18
SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act shall take effect 19
October 1, 2024. 20
Approved:
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Governor.
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President of the Senate.
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Speaker of the House of Delegates.