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HOUSE BILL 209
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(PRE–FILED) CF SB 239
By: Chair, Health and Government Operations Committee (By Request –
Departmental – Information Technology)
Requested: September 19, 2024
Introduced and read first time: January 8, 2025
Assigned to: Health and Government Operations
Committee Report: Favorable
House action: Adopted
Read second time: February 18, 2025
CHAPTER ______
AN ACT concerning 1
State Finance and Procurement – Local Cybersecurity Preparedness and 2
Response Plan and Assessment – Repeal 3
FOR the purpose of repealing a duplicative provision of law requiring certain local 4
government entities to create or update a cybersecurity preparedness and response 5
plan and complete a cybersecurity preparedness assessment; and generally relating 6
to local cybersecurity preparedness and response. 7
BY repealing 8
Article – State Finance and Procurement 9
Section 3.5–405 10
Annotated Code of Maryland 11
(2021 Replacement Volume and 2024 Supplement) 12
BY renumbering 13
Article – State Finance and Procurement 14
Section 3.5–406 and 3.5–407 15
to be Section 3.5–405 and 3.5–406, respectively 16
Annotated Code of Maryland 17
(2021 Replacement Volume and 2024 Supplement) 18
SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF MARYLAND, 19
That the Laws of Maryland read as follows: 20 2 HOUSE BILL 209
Article – State Finance and Procurement 1
[3.5–405. 2
(a) This section does not apply to municipal governments. 3
(b) In a manner and frequency established in regulations adopted by the 4
Department, each county government, local school system, and local health department 5
shall in consultation with the local emergency manager, create or update a cybersecurity 6
preparedness and response plan and complete a cybersecurity preparedness assessment.] 7
SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That Section(s) 3.5 –406 and 8
3.5–407 of Article – State Finance and Procurement of the Annotated Code of Maryland be 9
renumbered to be Section(s) 3.5–405 and 3.5–406, respectively. 10
SECTION 3. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act shall take effect July 11
1, 2025. 12
Approved:
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Governor.
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Speaker of the House of Delegates.
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President of the Senate.