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SENATE BILL 536
C3, E2 6lr2877
By: Senator Folden
Introduced and read first time: February 4, 2026
Assigned to: Judicial Proceedings
A BILL ENTITLED
AN ACT concerning 1
Private Home Detention Monitoring Agencies – Notification of Violation 2
FOR the purpose of repealing the requirement that a private home detention monitoring 3
agency provide notice to the designated law enforcement agency for certain violations 4
of home detention monitoring; and generally relating to private home detention 5
monitoring. 6
BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments, 7
Article – Business Occupations and Professions 8
Section 20–401(b) 9
Annotated Code of Maryland 10
(2018 Replacement Volume and 2025 Supplement) 11
SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF MARYLAND, 12
That the Laws of Maryland read as follows: 13
Article – Business Occupations and Professions 14
20–401. 15
(b) (1) Except as provided in paragraphs (2) and ( 3) of this subsection, on 16
determining that a defendant subject to private home detention monitoring under the 17
provisions of § 5–201(b) of the Criminal Procedure Article has violated a condition of home 18
detention monitoring, the private home detention monit oring agency responsible for 19
monitoring the defendant shall notify within 24 hours[: 20
(i)] the court that ordered private home detention monitoring as a 21
condition of the defendant’s pretrial release[; and 22
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(ii) the designated law enforcement agency, as determined by the 1
court, in Baltimore City or the county where the court is located]. 2
(2) On determining that a defendant subject to private home detention 3
monitoring under the provisions of § 5 –201(b) of the Criminal Procedure Article has 4
tampered with home detention monitoring equipment or failed to maintain home detention 5
monitoring equipment as required by a court order, the private home detention monitoring 6
agency responsible for monitoring the defendant shall notify within 1 hour: 7
(i) the court that ordered private home detention monitoring as a 8
condition of the defendant’s pretrial release; and 9
(ii) the designated law enforcement agency, as determined by the 10
court, in Baltimore City or the county where the court is located. 11
(3) On det ermining that a defendant subject to private home detention 12
monitoring under the provisions of § 5–201(b) of the Criminal Procedure Article has entered 13
an area that the defendant is expressly prohibited from entering as a condition of pretrial 14
release, the private home detention monitoring agency responsible for monitoring the 15
defendant shall notify immediately: 16
(i) the court that ordered private home detention monitoring as a 17
condition of the defendant’s pretrial release; and 18
(ii) the designated la w enforcement agency, as determined by the 19
court, in Baltimore City or the county where the court is located. 20
SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act shall take effect 21
October 1, 2026. 22