Senate Bill 857/House Bill 1280-Maryland Behavioral Health and Public Safety Center of Excellence-Establishment. This bill establishes the Maryland Behavioral Health and Public Safety Center of Excellence within the Governor’s Office of Crime Prevention, Youth, and Victim Services. This bill alters a provision of law to require, rather than authorize, the Board of Public Works to pay certain compensation in a certain manner to an individual who has been erroneously convicted, sentenced, and subsequently confined for a felony on receipt of a certain order. House Bill 742/Senate Bill 14-Compensation to Individual Erroneously Convicted, Sentenced, and Confined (The Walter Lomax Act). Senate Bill 811-Unemployment Insurance-Computation of Earned Rate of Contribution-Applicable Table of Rates. This legislation, based on the availability of federal funds, will replenish the Unemployment Insurance Trust Fund to result in Table C for calendar year 20. This bill makes substantial changes to the operations of MES including the membership of its Board, limitations of the Executive Director, Board of Directors, the Deputy Director, and general oversight of MES. Senate Bill 2-Maryland Environmental Service Reform Act of 2021. It also establishes the Digital Inclusion Fund and the Digital Connectivity Fund within DHCD to provide grants to local governments and nonprofits to increase access to high-speed internet and to assist in the development of affordable broadband Internet infrastructure. This legislation establishes the Office of Statewide Broadband within the Maryland Department of Housing and Community Development (DHCD). Senate Bill 66-Department of Housing and Community Development-Office of Statewide Broadband-Established (Digital Connectivity Act of 2021). This bill requires the Maryland Department of Health, in consultation with 2-1-1 Maryland, to make certain recommendations relating to the establishment of an opt-in mental health services phone call program that would require a center to call individuals who have opted into the mental health services phone call program on a periodic basis and attempt to connect individuals to a provider of mental health services under certain circumstances. House Bill 812/Senate Bill 719-2-1-1 Maryland-Mental Health Services Phone Call Program (The Thomas Bloom Raskin Act).

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