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<section article="ghu" article_name="Human Services" number="8-507" title_number="8" title_name="Children, Youth, and Families" subtitle_number="5" subtitle_name="Children's Cabinet Fund">
  <level label="a">
    <level label="1">
      <text>The Maryland Department of Health and the other agencies of the Children’s Cabinet, with input from local management boards, local home visiting programs, and the Early Childhood Advisory Council, shall require the recipients of State funding for home visiting programs to submit reports to the Maryland Department of Health on a regular basis.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>Home visiting program reports shall include, at a minimum:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>a verifiable accounting of the State funds spent;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>the number and demographic characteristics of the individuals served; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>the outcomes achieved by the home visiting programs.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>The Maryland Department of Health and the other agencies of the Children’s Cabinet shall develop a standardized reporting mechanism for the purpose of collecting information about and monitoring the effectiveness of State–funded home visiting programs.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <text>On or before December 1, 2013, and at least every 2 years thereafter, the Maryland Department of Health, jointly with the other agencies of the Children’s Cabinet shall submit a report to the Governor and, in accordance with § 2–1257 of the State Government Article, the Senate Finance Committee, the House Ways and Means Committee, and the Joint Committee on Children, Youth, and Families on the implementation and outcomes of State–funded home visiting programs.</text>
  </level>
</section>
