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H.B. 1341
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to receive specified information from the Department and to consult with the
Department on specified cases.
Senate Bill 782, which was passed by the General Assembly and signed by me,
accomplishes the same purpose. Therefore, it is not necessary for me to sign House
Bill 1341.
Very truly yours,
Robert L. Ehrlich, Jr.
Governor
House Bill No. 1341
AN ACT concerning
Public Health - Child Abuse and Neglect Centers of Excellence Initiative
FOR the purpose of establishing a Child Abuse and Neglect Centers of Excellence
Initiative in the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene; providing for the
purposes of the Initiative; requiring the Maryland Chapter of the American
Academy of Pediatrics to operate, manage, and administer the Initiative;
requiring the Department to cooperate and assist the Maryland Chapter of the
American Academy of Pediatrics in overseeing the Initiative; authorizing the
Department to contract with a certain type of organization to administer the
Initiative; providing for the duties of the Centers of Excellence faculty;
authorizing a Center of Excellence to receive certain information from the
Department on and consult and to consult with the Department on certain cases
from certain programs or entities; requiring the Secretary of the Health and
Mental Hygiene to appoint and convene a certain panel each year; requiring
certain the panel to assist the Secretary in reviewing and determining the
appropriateness of certain codes and bill protocols relating to child abuse and
neglect cases and determining how certain data may be preserved; requiring the
panel to meet with certain representatives to provide certain training in certain
codes and billing protocols; requiring the panel to submit a certain report to the
General Assembly on or before a certain date each year to the General Assembly
on certain data collected on data collected and the activities of the Initiative;
requiring the Governor to include a certain appropriation appropriations in the
State budget in a certain year years; requiring the Governor to include a certain
appropriation in the State budget each year of a certain amount; requiring the
Office of Legislative Audits to audit certain accounts and transaction
transactions of the Initiative; authorizing requiring certain providers to examine
and treat certain children if the child is brought to the providers by certain
individuals required to report suspected child abuse or neglect; authorizing
certain providers to provide expert child abuse or neglect care under certain
circumstances; defining certain terms; requiring the State Attorney General, in
conjunction with the Secretary of Health and Mental Hygiene and the Secretary
of Human Resources, to convene a certain workgroup composed of certain
representatives members; requiring the workgroup to investigate study and
make recommendations on the use of, reimbursement for, availability of, and
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