File Code: Criminal Law - Substantive Crimes
- Sponsored By:
-
Delegates Poole, M. Burns, Jacobs, Edwards, Dypski, Fry, Bonsack,
Owings, Bissett, and Harkins
- Entitled:
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Crimes - Violent Crimes and Crimes with Firearms - Sentences -
Parole Eligibility
Increasing maximum sentences for certain crimes and providing for
mandatory sentences for crimes committed with a firearm; allowing
certain victims to make an oral statement at certain parole hearings;
increasing the percentage of time served before persons convicted of
certain crimes are eligible for parole; increasing the number of years
that certain persons serving life sentences must serve before being
eligible for parole; clarifying that persons serving certain life
without parole sentences are ineligible for parole; etc.
House Action
- 1/26
- First Reading Judiciary
- 2/7
- Hearing 2/29 at 1:00 p.m.
Senate Action
- No Action
- Sponsored by:
- Delegate D. Bruce Poole, District 2B
- Delegate Phillip D. Bissett, District 30
- Delegate Rose Mary Hatem Bonsack, District 34
- Delegate Michael W. Burns, District 32
- Delegate Cornell N. Dypski, District 46
- Delegate George C. Edwards, District 1A
- Delegate Donald C. Fry, District 35A
- Delegate James M. Harkins, District 35A
- Delegate Nancy Jacobs, District 34
- Delegate George W. Owings, III, District 27B
- Bill indexed under the following Subjects:
- CRIMES AND PUNISHMENTS -see also- PENALTIES, SENTENCES
- GUNS -see also- HUNTING
- HEARINGS
- PAROLE AND PROBATION
- SENTENCES -see also- DEATH PENALTY
- VICTIMS -see also- CRIMINAL INJURIES COMP, DOMESTIC VIOLENCE
- WEAPONS -see also- GUNS
- Bill affects the following Statutes:
- Article - 27 Crimes and Punishments
- (
12 ,
29 ,
36B ,
348A ,
387 ,
412 ,
462 ,
463 ,
464 ,
464A ,
486 ,
488
)
- Article - 41 Governor - Executive and Administrative Departments
- (
4-507 ,
4-516
)
- Bill Text:
- First Reading (PDF),
Third Reading, Enrolled
- Fiscal Note:
Available (PDF)
Amendments:
None available