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*hb1429*
HOUSE BILL 1429
O4 5lr3318
By: Delegate Holmes
Introduced and read first time: February 7, 2025
Assigned to: Appropriations
Committee Report: Favorable
House action: Adopted
Read second time: March 1, 2025
CHAPTER ______
AN ACT concerning 1
Youth Services Bureaus – Criminal History Records Checks – Employees, 2
Volunteers, and Interns 3
FOR the purpose of authorizing youth services bureaus to request a criminal history 4
records check from the Criminal Justice Information System Central Repository for 5
employees, volunteers, and interns; and generally relating to criminal history 6
records checks by a youth services bureau. 7
BY renumbering 8
Article – Human Services 9
Section 9–233(d) and (e) 10
to be Section 9–233(e) and (f), respectively 11
Annotated Code of Maryland 12
(2019 Replacement Volume and 2024 Supplement) 13
BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments, 14
Article – Human Services 15
Section 9–233(a) 16
Annotated Code of Maryland 17
(2019 Replacement Volume and 2024 Supplement) 18
BY adding to 19
Article – Human Services 20
Section 9–233(d) 21
Annotated Code of Maryland 22 2 HOUSE BILL 1429
(2019 Replacement Volume and 2024 Supplement) 1
SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF MARYLAND, 2
That Section(s) 9–233(d) and (e) of Article – Human Services of the Annotated Code of 3
Maryland be renumbered to be Section(s) 9–233(e) and (f), respectively. 4
SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That the Laws of Maryland read 5
as follows: 6
Article – Human Services 7
9–233. 8
(a) (1) In this section[, “youth] THE FOLLOWING WORDS HAVE THE 9
MEANINGS INDICATED . 10
(2) “CRIMINAL REPOSITORY” MEANS THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE 11
INFORMATION SYSTEM CENTRAL REPOSITORY OF THE DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC 12
SAFETY AND CORRECTIONAL SERVICES. 13
(3) “YOUTH services bureau” means a community–based entity that is 14
operated: 15
[(1)] (I) to provide community–oriented delinquency prevention, youth 16
suicide prevention, drug and alcohol abuse prevention, and youth development; 17
[(2)] (II) to ameliorate conditions that contribute to delinquency, youth 18
suicide, drug and alcohol abuse, and family disruption; and 19
[(3)] (III) to function as an advocate of youth needs. 20
(D) (1) A YOUTH SERVICES BUREA U MAY APPLY TO THE CENTRAL 21
REPOSITORY FOR A STATE AND NATIONAL CRIMINAL HISTORY REC ORDS CHECK 22
FOR AN EMPLOYEE , A VOLUNTEER , OR AN INTERN OF THE BUREAU . 23
(2) AS PART OF THE APPLICATION FOR A CR IMINAL HISTORY 24
RECORDS CHECK , THE BUREAU SHALL SUB MIT TO THE CENTRAL REPOSITORY: 25
(I) A COMPLETE SET OF LEGIBLE FINGERPRINTS TAKEN IN A 26
FORMAT APPROVED BY T HE DIRECTOR OF THE FEDERAL BUREAU OF 27
INVESTIGATION ; 28
(II) THE MANDATORY PROCES SING FEE REQUIRED BY THE 29
FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION FOR A F EDERAL CRIMINAL HIST ORY 30
RECORDS CHECK ; AND 31 HOUSE BILL 1429 3
(III) THE FEE AUTHORIZED U NDER § 10–221(B)(7) OF THE 1
CRIMINAL PROCEDURE ARTICLE FOR ACCESS TO MARYLAND CRIMINAL HIS TORY 2
RECORDS. 3
(3) IN ACCORDANCE WITH §§ 10–201 THROUGH 10–229 OF THE 4
CRIMINAL PROCEDURE ARTICLE, THE CENTRAL REPOSITORY SHALL FORW ARD TO 5
THE BUREAU AND THE INDIVIDUAL T HE INDIVIDUAL’S CRIMINAL HISTORY R ECORD 6
INFORMATION . 7
(4) INFORMATION OBTAINED FROM THE CENTRAL REPOSITORY 8
UNDER THIS SECTION : 9
(I) IS CONFIDENTIAL ; 10
(II) MAY NOT BE REDISSEMI NATED; AND 11
(III) SHALL BE USED O NLY FOR THE EMPLOYMENT AND 12
VOLUNTEERING PURPOSES AUTHORIZED BY THIS S ECTION. 13
(5) THE SUBJECT OF A CRIM INAL HISTORY RECORDS CHECK UNDER 14
THIS SECTION MAY CON TEST THE CONTENTS OF THE CRIMINAL HISTORY RECORD 15
INFORMATION ISSUED B Y THE CENTRAL REPOSITORY AS PR OVIDED IN § 10–223 OF 16
THE CRIMINAL PROCEDURE ARTICLE. 17
(6) IF CRIMINAL HISTORY R ECORD INFORMATION IS REPORTED TO 18
THE CENTRAL REPOSITORY AFTER THE DATE OF THE INITIAL CRIMINAL HISTORY 19
RECORDS CHECK , THE CENTRAL REPOSITORY SHALL PROV IDE TO THE BUREAU AN D 20
THE INDIVIDUAL REVISED CRIMINAL HIS TORY RECORD INFORMAT ION. 21
SECTION 3. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act shall take effect 22
October 1, 2025. 23
Approved:
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Governor.
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Speaker of the House of Delegates.
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President of the Senate.