Section 8-6 - C-01. Definitions. - Maryland Statutes

§ 8-6C-01. Definitions.
 

(a)  In general.- In this subtitle the following words have the meanings indicated. 

(b)  Eligible population.- "Eligible population" includes: 

(1) Mothers of drug-addicted infants; 

(2) Parents of children in need of assistance; 

(3) Hospital emergency room admittees; 

(4) Needy families receiving temporary cash assistance; 

(5) Foster care children and parents; 

(6) Children in after-school programs and their parents, including children and parents in programs supported by the Maryland After-School Opportunity Fund; 

(7) Adolescents; 

(8) Parents subject to arrearages in child support payments; 

(9) Drug offenders under the supervision of the Division of Parole and Probation; 

(10) Pretrial correctional inmates; 

(11) Prerelease correctional inmates; 

(12) The general inmate population within county-managed correctional facilities; and 

(13) Parents of children entering out-of-home placements or at risk of entering out-of-home placements. 

(c)  Partnership funding.- "Partnership funding" means money granted from the Substance Abuse Treatment Outcomes Partnership Fund to match local funding. 

(d)  Proposal.- "Proposal" means a plan under this subtitle to provide new or expanded substance abuse treatment services. 

(e)  Request for Partnership funding.- "Request for Partnership funding" means a proposal, submitted by the governing bodies of one or more jurisdictions, to provide substance abuse treatment services to one or more eligible populations within the requesting jurisdiction or jurisdictions. 
 

[2000, ch. 675.]