Maryland legislation · 2025 Regular Session
Maryland HB1222: Public Safety - Immigration Enforcement (Maryland Values Act)
Status: Chaptered, May 20, 2025
Requiring federal law enforcement officers to notify certain individuals of federal immigration action at certain sensitive locations; prohibiting certain schools, libraries, and units of State or local government that operate at certain sensitive locations from allowing certain federal personnel access to areas not accessible to the general public, subject to certain exceptions; requiring the Attorney General to develop and publish certain guidance regarding immigration enforcement actions at certain sensitive locations; etc.
What the bill says
An act concerning Public Safety - Immigration Enforcement (Maryland Values Act) FOR the purpose of requiring an employee or agent of a State or local correctional facility and a law enforcement agent to detain provide certain notice of the release of a certain individual and transfer the individual to federal immigration authorities under certain circumstances; prohibiting the State, a unit of local government, a county sheriff, or any agency, officer, employee, or agent of the State or a unit of local government from entering into a certain immigration enforcement agreement…
From the enrolled text, June 4, 2025:
AN ACT concerning Public Safety - Immigration Enforcement (Maryland Values Act) FOR the purpose of requiring an employee or agent of a State or local correctional facility and a law enforcement agent to detain provide certain notice of the release of a certain individual and transfer the individual to federal immigration authorities under certain circumstances; prohibiting the State, a unit of local government, a county sheriff, or any agency, officer, employee, or agent of the State or a unit of local government from entering into a certain immigration enforcement agreement; requiring the termination of an existing immigration enforcement agreement on or before a certain date; requiring federal law enforcement officers to notify certain individuals of federal immigration action at certain sensitive locations; prohibiting certain schools, libraries, and units of State or local government that operate at certain sensitive locations from allowing certain federal personnel access to certain areas, subject to certain exceptions; requiring the Attorney General to develop and publish certain guidance regarding immigration enforcement actions at certain sensitive locations; encouraging private entities that provide certain services to adopt certain policies; requiring certain schools, libraries, and units of State and local government to adopt policies consistent with certain guidance; requiring, on or before a certain date, certain governmental entities, in consultation with the Department of Information Technology, to develop and …