Signed by Governor Larry Hogan, Jr.

Vote Smart's Synopsis:

Vote to pass a bill that appropriates $10 million to the Maryland Violence Intervention and Prevention Program.

Highlights:

• Authorizes the governor to annually appropriate $10 million to the Maryland Violence Intervention and Prevention Program Fund (Sec. 1).

• Requires the governor to annually include an appropriation of at least $3 million to the Maryland Violence Intervention and Prevention Program Fund in the annual budget bill (Sec. 1).

• Requires the governor to appropriate $3.6 million to Baltimore City to be used to provide grants to community-based operations that operate violence prevention or intervention programs by a community-based organization in a neighborhood that is disproportionately affected by violent crime, called the Safe Streets Initiatives (Sec. 1).

• Prohibits a grant made with funds by the Safe Street Initiative from (Sec. 1):

• Requiring a matching fund; 

• Exceeding $600,000 per initiative; or

• Supplant grant funding otherwise available for Safe Street Initiatives.

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