CHAPTER NUMBER: 362
File Code: Criminal Law - Procedure
Crossfiled with: HOUSE BILL 505
- Sponsored By:
-
Senator Stone (Task Force to Examine Maryland's Crime Victims'
Rights Laws)
- Entitled:
-
Parole Hearings - Oral Testimony by Victims
Requiring the clerk of the court to include a Maryland Sentencing
Guidelines Worksheet with a specified commitment order under specified
circumstances; requiring the Parole Commission to review the
Worksheet; altering the circumstances for victim notification and
admission of oral testimony for specified parole release hearings;
expanding the category of defendants for which a victim may request
specified notifications and proceedings; etc.
Senate Action
- 1/30
- First Reading Judicial Proceedings
- 2/4
- Hearing 2/17 at 1:00 p.m.
- 2/24
- Favorable with Amendments Report by Judicial Proceedings
- 2/25
- Favorable with Amendments Report Adopted
- Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- 2/27
- Third Reading Passed (45-1)
- 4/9
- Senate Concur - House Amendments
- Third Reading Passed (45-0)
- Passed Enrolled
- 5/12
- Signed by the Governor Chapter 362
House Action
- 3/2
- First Reading Judiciary
- 3/19
- Hearing 4/1 at 1:00 p.m.
- 4/6
- Favorable with Amendments Report by Judiciary
- 4/1
- Favorable with Amendments Report Adopted
- Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- 4/2
- Third Reading Passed with Amendments (137-0)
- Sponsored by:
- Senator Norman R. Stone, Jr., District 7
- Crime Victims' Rights Laws, T. F. to Examine MD's
- Bill indexed under the following Subjects:
- CHILD ABUSE
- CLERKS OF COURT
- COMMITTEES AND COMMISSIONS -see also- POLITICAL COMMITTEES
- CRIMES AND PUNISHMENTS -see also- PENALTIES; SENTENCES
- HEARINGS
- NOTICES
- PAROLE AND PROBATION
- PUBLIC INFORMATION
- PUBLIC SAFETY AND CORRECTIONAL SERVICES, DEPARTMENT OF
- SENTENCES -see also- DEATH PENALTY
- VICTIMS -see also- CRIMINAL INJURIES COMP; DOMESTIC VIOLENCE
- WITNESSES
- Bill affects the following Statutes:
- Article - 27 Crimes and Punishments
- (
643C ,
786 ,
786
)
- Article - 41 Governor - Executive and Administrative Departments
- (
4-504 ,
4-507
)
- Bill Text:
First Reading (PDF),
Third Reading (PDF), Enrolled (PDF)
- Fiscal Note:
Available (PDF)
- Amendments:
- Senate
- Number: 438652/1 (PDF) Offered on: February 25, 1998 at:
10:29 a.m. Status: Adopted
- House
- Number: 071299/1 (PDF) Offered on: April 6, 1998 at:
4:16 p.m. Status: Adopted
- Roll Call Votes (Legislative dates are shown):
- Senate
- February 27, 1998: Third Reading Passed (45-1)
- April 9, 1998: Third Reading Passed (45-0)
- House
- April 2, 1998: Third Reading Passed (137-0)
