2012 Regular Session
Circuit Courts
Status of Legislation
Total number of Bills: 52
- Sponsored By
- Delegate Glenn
- Entitled
- Medical Marijuana - Caregiver - Affirmative Defense
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Health and Government Operations and Judiciary
- Sponsored By
- Delegates Smigiel, Cluster, Eckardt, Hough, Kach, Krebs, McComas, McDermott, Schulz, and Vitale
- Entitled
- Private Property Rights - Regulatory Infringement - Compensation
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Environmental Matters
- Sponsored By
- Delegate McDermott
- Entitled
- Criminal Procedure - Public Defender - Representation
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Judiciary
- Sponsored By
- Delegates Afzali, Barkley, Clagett, Elliott, Feldman, Gaines, Glass, Hershey, Hogan, Ivey, Jacobs, A. Kelly, Krebs, Luedtke, McComas, McDermott, McHale, A. Miller, Myers, Niemann, Otto, Parrott, Ready, Ross, Schulz, Sophocleus, Walker, and Wilson
- Entitled
- Agriculture - Maryland Standard of Identity for Honey
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Environmental Matters
Senate: Education Health and Environmental Affairs
- Sponsored By
- Anne Arundel County Delegation
- Entitled
- Courts and Judicial Proceedings - Circuit Court for Anne Arundel County - Fees for Appearance of Counsel
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Judiciary
Senate: Judicial Proceedings
- Sponsored By
- Chair, Environmental Matters Committee (By Request - Departmental - Environment)
- Entitled
- Department of the Environment - Permit Proceedings - Judicial Review
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Environmental Matters
Senate: Education Health and Environmental Affairs
- Sponsored By
- Chair, Judiciary Committee (By Request - Maryland Judicial Conference)
- Entitled
- Courts - Sentence Review - Review Panel
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Judiciary
Senate: Judicial Proceedings
- Sponsored By
- Delegates Vallario, McDermott, Anderson, Dumais, Glenn, K. Kelly, Simmons, Smigiel, Valentino-Smith, and Wilson
- Entitled
- Criminal Procedure - Criminal Defendants - Citations and Appearances
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Judiciary
Senate: Judicial Proceedings
HB 314
Status as of March 12, 2012: Bill is in the Senate - First Reading Education Health and Environmental Affairs
- Sponsored By
- Delegates Rosenberg, Cardin, Kipke, Walker, Howard, Luedtke, F. Turner, Stukes, A. Miller, and Hixson
- Entitled
- Voter's Rights Protection Act of 2012
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Ways and Means
Senate: Education Health and Environmental Affairs and Judicial Proceedings
- Sponsored By
- Delegates Norman, Alston, Barnes, Braveboy, Cardin, Clippinger, Dumais, Feldman, James, K. Kelly, Lafferty, McComas, Mitchell, Niemann, Reznik, Rosenberg, Simmons, Smigiel, Stein, Valentino-Smith, Vallario, Vitale, and Wilson
- Entitled
- Courts - Discovery - Examination in Aid of Enforcement of Money Judgment
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Judiciary
Senate: Judicial Proceedings
- Sponsored By
- Delegate Beitzel
- Entitled
- Land Records - Dormant Mineral Interests and Natural Gas and Oil Leases - Court Order and Recordation Requirements
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Environmental Matters
Senate: Education Health and Environmental Affairs and Judicial Proceedings
- Sponsored By
- Delegate Niemann
- Entitled
- Courts and Judicial Proceedings - Criminal Injuries Compensation Fund - Court Costs
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Judiciary
Senate: Judicial Proceedings
- Sponsored By
- Delegate Simmons
- Entitled
- Family Law - Child Custody - Interim Custody or Visitation Order
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Judiciary
- Sponsored By
- Delegates K. Kelly, Anderson, Cluster, Dumais, Hough, Mitchell, Parrott, Simmons, and Valentino-Smith
- Entitled
- Criminal Procedure - Bail Bonds - Cash Bail
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Judiciary
- Sponsored By
- Delegates K. Kelly, Beitzel, Clippinger, Cluster, Dumais, Hough, McConkey, Myers, Parrott, Valentino-Smith, and Wilson
- Entitled
- Public Health - Inmates - HIV Testing
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Judiciary
Senate: Education Health and Environmental Affairs
- Sponsored By
- Delegate Niemann
- Entitled
- Criminal Procedure - Bail Bonds - Use of Real Property as Security
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Judiciary
- Sponsored By
- The Speaker (By Request - Administration) and Delegates Arora, Bohanan, Clagett, Gaines, Griffith, Healey, Hixson, Holmes, Howard, James, Jones, Lafferty, Lee, Love, A. Miller, Niemann, Proctor, Ross, Rudolph, Summers, Washington, Beidle, Glenn, Guzzone, Tarrant, Walker, B. Robinson, Mizeur, and Zucker
- Entitled
- Public-Private Partnerships
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Environmental Matters and Appropriations
Senate: Budget and Taxation
- Sponsored By
- Delegate Hammen (Chair, Health and Government Operations Committee)
- Entitled
- State Board of Physicians - Appointment and Term of Chair
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Health and Government Operations
Senate: Education Health and Environmental Affairs
- Sponsored By
- Delegates Pena-Melnyk, Costa, Cullison, Hubbard, A. Kelly, Kipke, Nathan-Pulliam, Oaks, and V. Turner
- Entitled
- Assisted Reproduction Agreements - Court Approval, Notice, and Required Records
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Judiciary
- Sponsored By
- Prince George's County Delegation and Montgomery County Delegation
- Entitled
- Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission - Residential Rental Property - Delinquency - Receiver PG/MC 105-12
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Environmental Matters
- Sponsored By
- Prince George's County Delegation
- Entitled
- Prince George's County - Qualifying Municipal Corporations - Land Use Decisions PG 411-12
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Environmental Matters
- Sponsored By
- Delegates Jacobs, Afzali, Cluster, Eckardt, Frank, Haddaway-Riccio, Hershey, McDermott, Norman, Otto, Smigiel, Summers, and Weir
- Entitled
- Commercial Fishing and Seafood Operations - Nuisance Actions - Exemption
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Environmental Matters
Senate: Judicial Proceedings
HB 954
Status as of March 22, 2012: Bill is in the House - Withdrawn Health and Government Operations
- Sponsored By
- Delegates Kipke, Afzali, Boteler, Eckardt, Elliott, Frank, George, Kach, Krebs, McComas, McConkey, Norman, Ready, Schulz, Stocksdale, and Szeliga
- Entitled
- Health Care Decisions Act - Petitions by Surrogates - Court Actions
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Health and Government Operations
- Sponsored By
- Delegate Dumais
- Entitled
- Estates and Trusts - Appeal from Orphans' Court and Jurisdiction of Circuit Court
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Judiciary
- Sponsored By
- Delegates Alston and Vallario
- Entitled
- Criminal Procedure - Right of Appeal from Final Judgments - Conditional Guilty Plea
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Judiciary
Senate: Judicial Proceedings
- Sponsored By
- Delegates Valderrama, Anderson, Lee, F. Turner, and Valentino-Smith
- Entitled
- Juveniles - Confinement in Juvenile Facilities - Report
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Judiciary
Senate: Judicial Proceedings
- Sponsored By
- Delegates Niemann, Burns, and Love
- Entitled
- Commercial Law - Consumer Protection - Credit Counseling and Legal Assistance Fund
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Economic Matters
- Sponsored By
- Delegate Wilson
- Entitled
- Charles County - Nuisance Actions - Community Associations
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Environmental Matters
- Sponsored By
- Delegates Kramer, Arora, Barkley, Carr, Cullison, Dumais, Hucker, A. Kelly, Reznik, B. Robinson, Simmons, Stein, and Valderrama
- Entitled
- Public Health Nuisance - Tobacco Smoke in Multidwelling Units - Abatement and Enforcement Authority
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Environmental Matters
HB 1428
Status as of March 1, 2012: Bill is in the House - First Reading House Rules and Executive Nominations
- Sponsored By
- Delegate Barnes (By Request) and Delegates Frush and Pena-Melnyk
- Entitled
- Juvenile Court - Jurisdiction - Robbery
- Committee
Assignments -
House: House Rules and Executive Nominations
- Sponsored By
- Delegates Conway, Branch, Cluster, and McDermott
- Entitled
- Court Costs - Criminal Cases - Funding for Law Enforcement
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Judiciary
HB 1475
Status as of March 16, 2012: Bill is in the House - First Reading House Rules and Executive Nominations
- Sponsored By
- Delegate Clippinger
- Entitled
- Criminal Procedure - Search Warrants - Application and Affidavit
- Committee
Assignments -
House: House Rules and Executive Nominations
- Sponsored By
- The Speaker (By Request - Judicial Compensation Commission)
- Entitled
- Judicial Compensation Commission - Recommendations
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Appropriations
- Sponsored By
- Chair, Judicial Proceedings Committee (By Request - Departmental - Public Safety and Correctional Services)
- Entitled
- Courts and Judicial Proceedings - Crime Victims and Witnesses Funds - Court Costs
- Committee
Assignments -
Senate: Judicial Proceedings
- Sponsored By
- Senators Young, Colburn, Forehand, Madaleno, Middleton, and Montgomery
- Entitled
- Agriculture - Maryland Standard of Identity for Honey
- Committee
Assignments -
Senate: Education Health and Environmental Affairs
House: Environmental Matters
- Sponsored By
- Chair, Anne Arundel County Senators
- Entitled
- Courts and Judicial Proceedings - Circuit Court for Anne Arundel County - Fees for Appearance of Counsel
- Committee
Assignments -
Senate: Judicial Proceedings
House: Judiciary
- Sponsored By
- Chair, Judicial Proceedings Committee (By Request - Maryland Judicial Conference)
- Entitled
- Courts - Sentence Review - Review Panel
- Committee
Assignments -
Senate: Judicial Proceedings
SB 348
Status as of February 1, 2012: Bill is in the Senate - First Reading Education Health and Environmental Affairs
- Sponsored By
- Senator Gladden
- Entitled
- Voter's Rights Protection Act of 2012
- Committee
Assignments -
Senate: Education Health and Environmental Affairs and Judicial Proceedings
- Sponsored By
- Senators Frosh and Colburn
- Entitled
- Criminal Procedure - Criminal Defendants - Citations and Appearances
- Committee
Assignments -
Senate: Judicial Proceedings
House: Judiciary
- Sponsored By
- Senator Edwards
- Entitled
- Environment - Dormant Mineral Interests - Termination by Court Order Requirements
- Committee
Assignments -
Senate: Education Health and Environmental Affairs and Judicial Proceedings
House: Environmental Matters
- Sponsored By
- Senator Zirkin
- Entitled
- Family Law - Child Custody - Interim Custody or Visitation Order
- Committee
Assignments -
Senate: Judicial Proceedings
- Sponsored By
- Senator Kelley
- Entitled
- Assisted Reproduction Agreements - Court Approval, Notice, and Required Records
- Committee
Assignments -
Senate: Judicial Proceedings
- Sponsored By
- Senator Conway (Chair, Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs Committee)
- Entitled
- State Board of Physicians - Appointment and Term of Chair
- Committee
Assignments -
Senate: Education Health and Environmental Affairs
House: Health and Government Operations
- Sponsored By
- Senators Ramirez, Muse, and Rosapepe
- Entitled
- Courts and Judicial Proceedings - Criminal Injuries Compensation Fund - Court Costs
- Committee
Assignments -
Senate: Judicial Proceedings
- Sponsored By
- Senators Pipkin and Colburn
- Entitled
- Commercial Fishing and Seafood Operations - Nuisance Actions - Exemption
- Committee
Assignments -
Senate: Judicial Proceedings
SB 761
Status as of April 1, 2012: Bill is in the House - First Reading House Rules and Executive Nominations
- Sponsored By
- Senator Gladden
- Entitled
- Juveniles - Confinement in Juvenile Facilities - Report
- Committee
Assignments -
Senate: Judicial Proceedings
House: House Rules and Executive Nominations
- Sponsored By
- Senators Pipkin, Brinkley, Colburn, Edwards, Glassman, Jacobs, and Shank
- Entitled
- Private Property Rights - Regulatory Infringement - Compensation
- Committee
Assignments -
Senate: Judicial Proceedings
- Sponsored By
- Senators Ramirez, Frosh, Forehand, and Gladden
- Entitled
- Commercial Law - Consumer Protection - Credit Counseling and Legal Assistance Fund
- Committee
Assignments -
Senate: Finance
- Sponsored By
- Senator Gladden
- Entitled
- Criminal Procedure - Right of Appeal from Final Judgments - Conditional Guilty Plea
- Committee
Assignments -
Senate: Judicial Proceedings
House: Judiciary
- Sponsored By
- Senator Muse
- Entitled
- Labor and Employment - Abusive Work Environments in State Agencies - Workgroup Study
- Committee
Assignments -
Senate: Finance
House: Appropriations
- Sponsored By
- Senators Zirkin and Stone
- Entitled
- Court Costs - Criminal Cases - Funding for Law Enforcement
- Committee
Assignments -
Senate: Judicial Proceedings and Budget and Taxation
- Sponsored By
- Chair, Budget and Taxation Committee (By Request - Judicial Compensation Commission)
- Entitled
- Judicial Compensation Commission - Recommendations
- Committee
Assignments -
Senate: Budget and Taxation and Judicial Proceedings
House: Appropriations
