City of Baltimore - File #: 13-0301

• File #: 13-0301
• Version: 0
• Name: "Ban the Box" - Fair Criminal-Record Screening Practices
• Type: Ordinance
• Status: Enacted
• File created: 12/5/2013
• In control: City Council
• Final action: 5/15/2014
• Enactment #: 14-221
• Title: "Ban the Box" - Fair Criminal-Record Screening Practices FOR the purpose of prohibiting certain employers from making certain inquiries about, or taking certain actions because of, certain arrests or accusations; prohibiting certain employers from conducting a criminal-record check or otherwise inquiring into an applicant's criminal record until after the conclusion of an initial interview; providing for certain exceptions; providing for administrative and judicial review of and remedial relief for violations; prohibiting reprisals against persons who allege a violation of these prohibitions; defining certain terms; imposing certain penalties; providing for a special; effective date; and generally relating to the establishment of fair criminal-record screening practices for employers in the City of Baltimore.
• Sponsors: Nick Mosby, Brandon M. Scott, Carl Stokes, Mary Pat Clarke, Edward Reisinger, Sharon Green Middleton, William H. Cole, IV, Bill Henry, Robert Curran, Rochelle Spector
• Indexes: Criminal Record, Screening

Date	Ver.	Action By	Action	Result
5/15/2014	0	Mayor	Signed by Mayor
4/28/2014	0	City Council	Approved and Sent to the Mayor
4/7/2014	0	City Council	Amended
4/7/2014	0	City Council	Advanced to Enrolled 3rd Reader
3/24/2014	0	City Council	Held for 1 meeting
3/10/2014	0	Judiciary and Legislative Investigations	Recommended Favorably
3/10/2014	0	City Council	Amended
3/10/2014	0	City Council	Advanced to 3rd Rdr., Adopted Comm. Report
1/13/2014	0	Judiciary and Legislative Investigations	Scheduled for a Public Hearing
12/10/2013	0	The City Council	Referred for a Report
12/10/2013	0	The City Council	Referred for a Report
12/10/2013	0	The City Council	Referred for a Report
12/10/2013	0	The City Council	Referred for a Report
12/10/2013	0	The City Council	Referred for a Report
12/10/2013	0	The City Council	Referred for a Report
12/10/2013	0	The City Council	Referred for a Report
12/5/2013	0	City Council	Introduced
12/5/2013	0	City Council	Assigned

EXPLANATION: CAPITALS indicate matter added to existing law.
[Brackets] indicate matter deleted from existing law.

* WARNING: THIS IS AN UNOFFICIAL, INTRODUCTORY COPY OF THE BILL.
THE OFFICIAL COPY CONSIDERED BY THE CITY COUNCIL IS THE FIRST READER COPY.
INTRODUCTORY*

CITY OF BALTIMORE
COUNCIL BILL

Introduced by: Councilmember Mosby

A BILL ENTITLED

AN ORDINANCE concerning
title
"Ban the Box" - Fair Criminal-Record Screening Practices

FOR the purpose of prohibiting certain employers from making certain inquiries about, or taking certain actions because of, certain arrests or accusations; prohibiting certain employers from conducting a criminal-record check or otherwise inquiring into an applicant's criminal record until after the conclusion of an initial interview; providing for certain exceptions; providing for administrative and judicial review of and remedial relief for violations; prohibiting reprisals against persons who allege a violation of these prohibitions; defining certain terms; imposing certain penalties; providing for a special; effective date; and generally relating to the establishment of fair criminal-record screening practices for employers in the City of Baltimore.
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BY adding
Article 11 - Labor and Employment
Section(s) 14-1 through 14-16, to be under the new subtitle designation,
"Subtitle 14. Fair Criminal-Record Screening Practices "
Baltimore City Code
(Edition 2000)

SECTION 1. BE IT ORDAINED BY THE MAYOR AND CITY COUNCIL OF BALTIMORE, That the Laws of Baltimore City read as follows:

Baltimore City Code

Article 11. Labor and Employment

SUBTITLE 14. FAIR CRIMINAL-RECORD SCREENING PRACTICES


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