File Code: Civil Actions and Procedures
- Sponsored By:
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Delegate Taylor and Chairman, Judiciary Committee (Family
Violence Council), and Delegates Dewberry, Hurson, Arnick, Busch,
Curran, Harrison, Hixson, Kopp, Menes, Owings, and Rawlings
- Entitled:
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Evidence - Assault Trials - Spousal Privilege - Record of Assertion
Requiring that the clerk of the court make and maintain a separate
record if the spouse of a person on trial for assault in which the
spouse was a victim refuses to testify; specifying the contents of the
record; and providing that the record is not subject to expungement.
House Action
- 10/28
- Pre-filed
- 1/8
- First Reading Judiciary
- 1/29
- Hearing 2/11 at 1:00 p.m.
- 2/10
- Hearing cancelled
Senate Action
- No Action
- Sponsored by:
- Delegate Casper R. Taylor, Jr., District 1C
- Delegate Michael Erin Busch, District 30
- Delegate Gerald J. Curran, District 43
- Delegate Thomas E. Dewberry, District 47B
- Delegate Hattie N. Harrison, District 45
- Delegate Sheila Ellis Hixson, District 20
- Delegate John Adams Hurson, District 18
- Chairman, Judiciary Comm.
- Delegate Nancy K. Kopp, District 16
- Delegate Pauline H. Menes, District 21
- Delegate George W. Owings, III, District 27B
- Delegate Howard P. Rawlings, District 40
- Bill indexed under the following Subjects:
- ASSAULT
- CLERKS OF COURT
- DOMESTIC VIOLENCE
- RECORDS -see also- RCDNGS; LAND RCDS; VITAL RCDS; CRIM BKGD.
- TRIALS
- WITNESSES
- Bill affects the following Statute:
- Courts and Judicial Proceedings
- (
9-106
)
- Bill Text:
- First Reading (PDF),
Third Reading, Enrolled
- Fiscal Note:
Available (PDF)