File Code: Criminal Law - Procedure
Prior Year Introduction As: HB 240/95 - JUD
- Sponsored By: 
 - 
Delegates Ports and Redmer
 
- Entitled: 
 - 
Controlled Dangerous Substances - Minors - Mandatory Penalties
 
Establishing a mandatory penalty of not less than 10 and not more than
20 years imprisonment or not more than a $20,000 fine or both for a
person convicted of hiring, soliciting, engaging, or using a minor to
manufacture, distribute, or deliver a controlled dangerous substance
in sufficient quantity to indicate an intent to distribute, unless
those activities have a lawful purpose; specifying that neither the
sentence nor any part of it may be suspended, and that the person is
ineligible for parole, as specified; etc.
House Action
- 2/2
 - First Reading Judiciary
 - 2/7
 - Hearing 2/22 at 2:00 p.m.
 - 2/26
 - Unfavorable Report by Judiciary
 
Senate Action
- No Action
 
- Sponsored by:
 - Delegate James F. Ports, Jr., District 8
 - Delegate Alfred W. Redmer, Jr., District 8
 
- Bill indexed under the following Subjects:
 - CONTROLLED DANGEROUS SUBSTANCES -see also- DRUGS
 - CRIMES AND PUNISHMENTS -see also- PENALTIES, SENTENCES
 - MINORS -see also- AGE OF MAJORITY, JUVENILE CAUSES, YOUTH
 - PAROLE AND PROBATION
 - PENALTIES
 - SENTENCES -see also- DEATH PENALTY
 
- Bill affects the following Statute:
 - Article - 27 Crimes and Punishments
 - (
 286C 
)
 
- Bill Text:
 -  First Reading (PDF),
Third Reading, Enrolled 
 - Fiscal Note:
 Available (PDF) 
Amendments:
None available