# Human Services (GHU)

## Title 8. Children, Youth, and Families

### Subtitle 3. Local Management Boards

#### Section 8-301

(a) Each county shall establish and maintain a local management board to ensure the implementation of a local interagency service delivery system for children, youth, and families.

(b) A county may designate as the local management board:

  (1) a quasi-public nonprofit corporation that is not an instrumentality of the county government; or

  (2) a public agency that is an instrumentality of the county government.

#### Section 8-302

A local management board may be composed of:

(1) public and private community representatives who share the responsibility for implementing a community-based, interagency, family-focused service delivery system for children, youth, and families;

(2) a senior representative or department head of the:

  (i) local health department;

  (ii) local office of the Department of Juvenile Services;

  (iii) core service agency or local behavioral health authority;

  (iv) local school system; and

  (v) local department of social services;

(3) family members or family advocates; and

(4) youth or youth advocates.

#### Section 8-303

A local management board shall:

(1) strengthen the decision-making capacity at the local level;

(2) design and implement strategies that achieve clearly defined results for children, youth, and families as articulated in a local 5-year strategic plan for children, youth, and families;

(3) maintain standards of accountability for locally agreed upon results for children, youth, and families;

(4) influence the allocation of resources across systems as necessary to accomplish the desired results;

(5) build local partnerships to coordinate children, youth, and family services within the county to eliminate fragmentation and duplication of services; and

(6) create an effective system of services, supports, and opportunities that improve outcomes for all children, youth, and families.

#### Section 8-304

The members of the Children's Cabinet shall adopt regulations that:

(1) specify the roles and responsibilities of local management boards;

(2) establish minimum standards for the composition of local management boards;

(3) establish fiscal and program accountability in the implementation of community partnership agreements and the use of other State resources by local management boards;

(4) establish procedures to ensure the confidentiality of information shared by local management board members and employees in accordance with State and federal law; and

(5) generally relate to the operation of local management boards.

#### Section 8-305

On or before October 1 of each year, the Maryland Association of Local Management Board Directors shall, in accordance with Sec. 2-1257 of the State Government Article, submit to the Senate Finance Committee, the House Committee on Ways and Means, and the Joint Committee on Children, Youth, and Families, a report summarizing, with respect to the programs implemented under Sec. 8-505(d) of this title:

(1) each local management board's activities;

(2) the amount of money spent on the programs; and

(3) the effectiveness of the programs.

#### Section 8-306

(a) On or before January 1, 2018, the Prince George's County Local Management Board shall:

  (1) develop and implement a strategic plan to raise revenues to match the total funding provided by the Governor's Office for Children; and

  (2) submit the strategic plan to:

    (i) the County Executive of Prince George's County;

    (ii) the County Council of Prince George's County;

    (iii) the Prince George's County Senate Delegation of the General Assembly; and

    (iv) the Prince George's County House Delegation of the General Assembly.

(b) On or before January 1 each year, the Prince George's County Local Management Board shall submit a report on the total revenue received in the previous fiscal year and the total revenue from each source to:

  (1) the County Executive of Prince George's County;

  (2) the County Council of Prince George's County;

  (3) the Prince George's County Senate Delegation of the General Assembly; and

  (4) the Prince George's County House Delegation of the General Assembly.

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Md. Code Ann., Hum. Servs. (as displayed at mgaleg.maryland.gov, October 16, 2026)