Title
AN ACT CONCERNING PRINCE GEORGE’S COUNTY RE-ENTRY EMPLOYMENT INCENTIVE PROGRAM for the purpose of expanding the Re-Entry Employment Incentive Program to County government agencies; providing for regulations and qualifications to the Re-Entry Employment Incentive Program for County agencies; establishing the Re-Entry Employment Incentive Program Fund; requiring a minimum annual appropriation; ; providing an exception to the hiring preference requirement; requiring reporting requirements; and generally relating to re-entry hiring.
Background
This bill will allow for the creation of the Re-Entry Preferred Hiring Fund that will reserve a portion of County funds to be exclusively utilized for the hiring of individuals with non-violent criminal offense(s). In addition to the creation of the Re-Entry Preferred Hiring Fund, it also mandates the creation of the Re-Entry Preferred Hiring Program that the will be administered by the Director of Human Resources Management. In particular, the legislation is essential and needed for the promotion of the County's commitment to curbing recidivism by offering the County's returning citizens meaning employment with the County. The County Council derives it authority for enacting this bill from section 904 of Article IX of the County Charter.