File Code: Public Health
Crossfiled with: HOUSE BILL 26
- Sponsored By:
-
Senator Bromwell
- Entitled:
-
Sexually Violent Predator Act of 1998
Creating a procedure in which a person who has been convicted of or
charged with a specified violent offense and who suffers from a
certain mental abnormality or personality disorder may be placed in
the custody of the Secretary of the Department of Health and Mental
Hygiene until the person is safe to be at large.
Senate Action
- 1/28
- First Reading Judicial Proceedings
- Hearing 2/5 at 1:00 p.m.
- 2/16
- Unfavorable Report by Judicial Proceedings
House Action
- No Action
- Bill indexed under the following Subjects:
- ATTORNEY GENERAL
- CIRCUIT COURTS
- CIVIL ACTIONS -see also- SMALL CLAIMS
- COMMITTEES AND COMMISSIONS -see also- POLITICAL COMMITTEES
- COURTS -see also- CIRCUIT COURTS; DISTRICT COURTS
- CRIMES AND PUNISHMENTS -see also- PENALTIES; SENTENCES
- HEALTH AND MENTAL HYGIENE, DEPARTMENT OF
- HEARINGS
- LIABILITY -see also- GOOD SAMARITAN
- MENTAL HEALTH
- NOTICES
- PAROLE AND PROBATION
- PETITIONS
- PRISONERS
- SEXUAL OFFENSES
- TRIALS
- VICTIMS -see also- CRIMINAL INJURIES COMP; DOMESTIC VIOLENCE
- Bill affects the following Statutes:
- Article - 27 Crimes and Punishments
- (
789A ,
792 ,
792 ,
792 ,
792
)
- Health - General
- (
1-101 ,
10-101 ,
10-634 ,
10-635 ,
10-636 ,
10-637 ,
10-638 ,
10-639 ,
10-640 ,
10-641 ,
10-642 ,
10-643 ,
10-644 ,
10-645
)
- Bill Text:
First Reading (PDF),
Third Reading, Enrolled
- Fiscal Note:
Available (PDF)
- Amendments:
None offered
