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*sb0860*
SENATE BILL 860
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By: Senator Corderman
Introduced and read first time: February 2, 2024
Assigned to: Judicial Proceedings
A BILL ENTITLED
AN ACT concerning 1
Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services – Study on Location of 2
Individuals Prior to and Following Incarceration 3
FOR the purpose of requiring the Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services 4
to conduct a certain study examining certain data regarding an individual’s 5
residence prior to incarceration and on release from a State correctional facility; and 6
generally relating to State correctional facilities. 7
BY adding to 8
Article – Correctional Services 9
Section 9–618 10
Annotated Code of Maryland 11
(2017 Replacement Volume and 2023 Supplement) 12
SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF MARYLAND, 13
That the Laws of Maryland read as follows: 14
Article – Correctional Services 15
9–618. 16
(A) ON OR BEFORE OCTOBER 1, 2025, AND EACH OCTOBER 1 THEREAFTER , 17
THE DEPARTMENT SHALL COND UCT A STUDY ON THE LOCATIO N OF INDIVIDUALS 18
BEFORE AND FOLLOWING INCARC ERATION IN A STATE CORRECTIONAL FA CILITY 19
AND REPORT THE RESUL TS OF THE STUDY TO T HE SENATE JUDICIAL PROCEEDINGS 20
COMMITTEE, THE SENATE BUDGET AND TAXATION COMMITTEE, THE HOUSE 21
JUDICIARY COMMITTEE, AND THE HOUSE APPROPRIATIONS COMMITTEE, IN 22
ACCORDANCE WITH § 2–1257 OF THE STATE GOVERNMENT ARTICLE. 23
(B) THE STUDY SHALL INCLUDE: 24 2 SENATE BILL 860
(1) DATA ON THE COUNTY OF RES IDENCE OF EACH INDIV IDUAL 1
RELEASED DURING THE PREVIOUS YEAR , AS REPORTED BY THE INDIVIDUAL ON 2
INTAKE TO THE FACILITY; 3
(2) DATA ON THE COUNTY OF RELEASE FOLLOWING INCARCERATION ; 4
(3) FOR INDIVIDUALS WHO WERE TRANSFERRED FROM ONE STATE 5
CORRECTIONAL FACILIT Y TO ANOTHER PRIOR T O RELEASE, THE NUMBER OF DAYS 6
THAT THE TRANSFER OC CURRED BEFORE RELEAS E; AND 7
(4) A COMPARISON OF : 8
(I) THE NUMBER OF INDIVIDUALS RELEA SED FROM A STATE 9
CORRECTIONAL FACILIT Y INTO THE SAME COUNTY IN WHICH THEY RESIDED PRIOR 10
TO INCARCERATION ; 11
(II) THE NUMBER OF INDIVIDUALS RELEA SED FROM A STATE 12
CORRECTIONAL FACILIT Y INTO THE SAME COUNTY IN WHICH CONVICTION 13
OCCURRED; AND 14
(III) THE NUMBER OF INDIVIDUALS RELEASED FROM A STATE 15
CORRECTIONAL FACILIT Y INTO THE COUNTY IN W HICH THEY WERE INCAR CERATED 16
AT THE TIME OF RELEA SE. 17
SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act shall take effect 18
October 1, 2024. 19