# Human Services (GHU)

## Title 8. Children, Youth, and Families

### Subtitle 7. Residential Child Care Programs -- General Provisions

#### Section 8-702

It is the intent of the General Assembly to:

(1) improve the quality of care provided by residential child care programs;

(2) provide the same quality of care to all children placed in residential child care programs; and

(3) develop a system that expands services provided by residential child care programs to counties that are underserved.

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