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SENATE BILL 945
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By: Senators Hettleman, Brooks, and Attar
Introduced and read first time: January 28, 2025
Assigned to: Finance
A BILL ENTITLED
AN ACT concerning 1
Community–Based Residential Facilities – Licensing Entities – Provision of 2
Licensing Criteria and Single Point of Contact 3
FOR the purpose of requiring a licensing authority, on request, to provide to an interested 4
party the criteria used by the licensing authority to determine whether to issue a 5
license for or renew a license of a community facility; requiring a licensing authority 6
to designate a single point of contact to respond to complaints, concerns, or issues 7
regarding a community facility; and generally relating to community –based 8
residential facilities. 9
BY adding to 10
Article – Health – General 11
Section 24–2501 and 24–2502 to be under the new subtitle “Subtitle 25. 12
Community–Based Residential Facilities – Provision of Licensing Criteria and 13
Single Point of Contact” 14
Annotated Code of Maryland 15
(2023 Replacement Volume and 2024 Supplement) 16
SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF MARYLAND, 17
That the Laws of Maryland read as follows: 18
Article – Health – General 19
SUBTITLE 25. COMMUNITY–BASED RESIDENTIAL FACILITIES – PROVISION OF 20
LICENSING CRITERIA AND SINGLE POINT OF CONTACT. 21
24–2501. 22
(A) IN THIS SUBTITLE THE FOLLOWING WORDS HAVE THE MEANINGS 23
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(B) “COMMUNITY FACILITY ” MEANS A COMMUNIT Y–BASED RESIDENTIAL 1
FACILITY: 2
(1) LICENSED UNDER : 3
(I) TITLE 7.5 OF THIS ARTICLE; 4
(II) TITLE 8 OF THIS ARTICLE; 5
(III) TITLE 10, SUBTITLE 22 OF COMAR; OR 6
(IV) TITLE 10, SUBTITLE 63 OF COMAR; OR 7
(2) SUBJECT TO TITLE 14, SUBTITLE 31 OF COMAR. 8
(C) “INTERESTED PARTY ” MEANS AN INDIVIDUAL WITH A LEGITIMATE 9
INTEREST IN THE LICE NSURE OF THE COMMUNI TY FACILITY, INCLUDING A FAMILY 10
MEMBER OF A RESIDENT OF THE COMMUNITY FAC ILITY OR AN INDIVIDU AL LIVING 11
IN CLOSE PROXIMITY T O THE COMMUNITY FACI LITY. 12
(D) “LICENSING AUTHORITY ” MEANS A STATE AGENCY THAT ISS UES A 13
LICENSE FOR A COMMUN ITY FACILITY. 14
24–2502. 15
(A) ON REQUEST , A LICENSING AUTHORIT Y SHALL PROVIDE TO A N 16
INTERESTED PARTY THE CRITERIA USED BY THE LICENSING AUTHORITY TO 17
DETERMINE WHETHER TO ISSUE A LICENSE FOR OR RENEW A LICENSE O F A 18
COMMUNITY FACILITY . 19
(B) EACH LICENSING AUTHOR ITY SHALL DESIGNATE A SINGLE POINT OF 20
CONTACT TO RESPOND T O COMPLAINTS , CONCERNS, OR ISSUES REGARDING A 21
COMMUNITY FACILITY . 22
SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act shall take effect 23
October 1, 2025. 24