File Code: Criminal Law - Procedure
- 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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Domestic Abuse - Duties of Law Enforcement Officers
Requiring a law enforcement officer who responds to a request for
assistance from a person who alleges to have been a victim of domestic
abuse and who believes there is a danger of serious and immediate
injury to himself or herself to accompany the complainant to the
family home so that the complainant may remove any medicine or medical
devices of the complainant or of any child in the care of the
complainant.
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:
- DOMESTIC VIOLENCE
- DRUGS -see also-CONTROLLED DANG.SUBST.;DRUNK & DRUGGED DRIVG
- EQUIPMENT -see also- MOTOR VEHICLE EQUIPMENT
- LAW ENFORCEMENT -see also- STATE POLICE, DEPT. OF
- Bill affects the following Statute:
- Article - 27 Crimes and Punishments
- (
798
)
- Bill Text:
- First Reading (PDF),
Third Reading, Enrolled
- Fiscal Note:
Available (PDF)