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SENATE BILL 84
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SB 860/24 – JPR (PRE–FILED) CF HB 22
By: Senator Corderman
Requested: October 2, 2024
Introduced and read first time: January 8, 2025
Assigned to: Judicial Proceedings
Committee Report: Favorable
Senate action: Adopted
Read second time: February 2, 2025
CHAPTER ______
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 2024 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, 2026, AND EACH OCTOBER 1 THEREAFTER , 17
THE DEPARTMENT SHALL COND UCT A STUDY ON THE L OCATION OF INDIVIDUA LS 18 2 SENATE BILL 84
BEFORE AND FOLLOWING IN CARCERATION IN A STATE CORRECTIONAL FA CILITY 1
AND REPORT THE RESUL TS OF THE STUDY TO T HE SENATE JUDICIAL PROCEEDINGS 2
COMMITTEE, THE SENATE BUDGET AND TAXATION COMMITTEE, THE HOUSE 3
JUDICIARY COMMITTEE, AND THE HOUSE APPROPRIATIONS COMMITTEE, IN 4
ACCORDANCE WITH § 2–1257 OF THE STATE GOVERNMENT ARTICLE. 5
(B) THE STUDY SHALL INCLU DE: 6
(1) DATA ON THE COUNTY O F RESIDENCE OF EACH INDIVIDUAL 7
RELEASED DURING THE PREVIOUS YEAR , AS REPORTED BY THE I NDIVIDUAL ON 8
INTAKE TO THE FACILI TY; 9
(2) DATA ON THE COUNTY O F RELEASE FOLLOWING INCARCERATION ; 10
(3) FOR INDIVIDUALS WHO WERE TRANSFERRED FRO M ONE STATE 11
CORRECTIONAL FACILIT Y TO ANOTHER PRIOR T O RELEASE, THE NUMBER OF DAYS 12
THAT THE TRANSFER OC CURRED BEFORE RELEAS E; AND 13
(4) A COMPARISON OF : 14
(I) THE NUMBER OF INDIVI DUALS RELEASED FROM A STATE 15
CORRECTIONAL FACILIT Y INTO THE SAME COUN TY IN WHICH THEY RES IDED PRIOR 16
TO INCARCERATION ; 17
(II) THE NUMBER OF INDIVI DUALS RELEASED FROM A STATE 18
CORRECTIONAL FACILIT Y INTO THE SAME COUN TY IN WHICH CON VICTION 19
OCCURRED; AND 20
(III) THE NUMBER OF INDIVI DUALS RELEASED FROM A STATE 21
CORRECTIONAL FACILIT Y INTO THE COUNTY IN WHICH THEY WERE INCA RCERATED 22
AT THE TIME OF RELEA SE. 23
SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act shall take effect 24
October 1, 2025. 25