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EXPLANATION: CAPITALS INDICATE MATTER ADDED TO EXISTING LAW.
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HOUSE BILL 285
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(PRE–FILED) CF SB 210
By: Chair, Judiciary Committee (By Request – Departmental – Public Safety and
Correctional Services)
Requested: September 16, 2025
Introduced and read first time: January 14, 2026
Assigned to: Judiciary
A BILL ENTITLED
AN ACT concerning 1
Correctional Services – Home Detention – Monitoring and Security 2
FOR the purpose of transferring the monitoring and security of the home detention 3
programs of the Division of Correction to the Warrant Apprehension Unit of the 4
Intelligence and Investigative Division within the Department of Public Safety and 5
Correctional Services; and generally relating to home detention. 6
BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments, 7
Article – Correctional Services 8
Section 3–403, 3–412, and 10–702 9
Annotated Code of Maryland 10
(2025 Replacement Volume) 11
SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF MARYLAND, 12
That the Laws of Maryland read as follows: 13
Article – Correctional Services 14
3–403. 15
An incarcerated individual in the program shall be supervised by means of: 16
(1) electronic devices; and 17
(2) direct contact by employees of the WARRANT APPREHENSION UNIT 18
OF THE INTELLIGENCE AND INVESTIGATIVE Division. 19
3–412. 20
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(a) The Commissioner shall [employ correctional ] AUTHORIZE employees OF 1
THE WARRANT APPREHENSION UNIT OF THE INTELLIGENCE AND INVESTIGATIVE 2
DIVISION to monitor and provide security for incarcerated individuals in the program. 3
(b) [A correctional ] AN employee [designated] OF THE WARRANT 4
APPREHENSION UNIT HAS THE AUTHORIT Y PROVIDED UNDER § 10–702 OF THIS 5
ARTICLE to monitor incarcerated individuals in the program [may: 6
(1) obtain and execute search warrants as authorized under § 3–415 of this 7
subtitle; and 8
(2) make arrests as authorized under § 2 –207 of the Criminal Procedure 9
Article. 10
(c) A correctional employee authorized to make arrests under this section shall: 11
(1) meet the minimum qualif ications required by the Maryland Police 12
Training and Standards Commission; and 13
(2) complete satisfactorily the training prescribed by the Maryland Police 14
Training and Standards Commission]. 15
10–702. 16
(a) (1) In this section the following words have the meanings indicated. 17
(2) “Offender” [has the meaning stated in § 6–101 of this article] MEANS: 18
(I) AN INDIVIDUAL ON PRO BATION, PAROLE, OR MANDATORY 19
SUPERVISION; OR 20
(II) AN INCARCERATED INDIVIDUAL DETAINED OR CONFINED IN 21
A STATE CORRECTIONAL FACILITY. 22
(3) “Program” has the meaning stated in § 3–401, § 5–202, OR § 6–101 of 23
this article. 24
(b) There is a Warrant Apprehension Unit in the Intelligence and Investigative 25
Division. 26
(c) The Director of the Intelligence and Investigative Division may authorize 27
employees of the Warrant Apprehension Unit of the Intelligence and Investigative Division 28
to: 29
(1) execute warrants for the retaking of offenders; 30
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(2) execute warrants for the arrest of [probationers] OFFENDERS for 1
whom a warrant is issued for an alleged violation of [probation] THE PROGRAM; 2
(3) obtain and execute search warrants as authorized under § 3–415 OR § 3
6–109 of this article; and 4
(4) arrest offenders in the program as authorized under § 2 –207 of the 5
Criminal Procedure Article. 6
(d) An Intelligence and Investigative Division employee who is authorized to 7
make arrests under this section shall: 8
(1) meet the minimum qualifications required by the Maryland Police 9
Training and Standards Commission; and 10
(2) complete satisfactorily the training prescribed by the Maryland Police 11
Training and Standards Commission. 12
(e) An Intelligence and Investigative Division employee who is authorized to 13
make arrests under this section may also exercise the powers of a peace officer and police 14
officer. 15
SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act shall take effect 16
October 1, 2026. 17