File Code: Family Law
Crossfiled with: SENATE BILL 160
- Sponsored By:
-
Delegate Taylor and Chairman, Judiciary Committee (Family Violence
Council), and Delegates Dewberry, Hurson, Arnick, Busch, Curran,
Harrison, Hixson, Kopp, Menes, Owings, Rawlings, Hecht, Grosfeld,
Montague, Love, Pendergrass, Conway, Cadden, Stup, Petzold,
Nathan-Pulliam, Willis, McIntosh, Parker, Rosenberg, B. Hughes,
Branch, Slade, Donoghue, Franchot, Edwards, Brinkley, Eckardt, Conroy,
Bobo, Watson, Fry, Pitkin, and Hubbard
- Entitled:
-
Family Law - Grounds for Divorce
Adding cruel treatment and excessively vicious conduct as grounds for
an absolute divorce.
House Action
- 1/30
- First Reading Judiciary
- Hearing 2/11 at 1:00 p.m.
- 3/10
- Favorable with Amendments Report by Judiciary
- 3/11
- Committee Amendment Withdrawn
- Substitute Committee Amendment Adopted
- Favorable with Amendments Report Adopted
- Special Order 3/13 (Delegate Mandel) Adopted
- 3/13
- Special Order 3/14 (Delegate Poole) Adopted
- 3/14
- Special Order 3/18 (Delegate Montague) Adopted
- 3/18
- Floor Amendment (Delegate Arnick) Adopted
- Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- 3/20
- Third Reading Passed (130-3)
Senate Action
- 3/21
- First Reading Judicial Proceedings
- Hearing 3/26 at 1:00 p.m.
- 4/3
- Unfavorable Report by Judicial Proceedings
- Sponsored by:
- Delegate Casper R. Taylor, Jr., District 1C
- Delegate John S. Arnick, District 7
- Delegate Elizabeth Bobo, District 12B
- Delegate Talmadge Branch, District 45
- Delegate David R. Brinkley, District 4A
- Delegate Michael Erin Busch, District 30
- Delegate Joan Cadden, District 31
- Delegate Mary A. Conroy, District 23
- Delegate Norman H. Conway, District 38
- Delegate Gerald J. Curran, District 43
- Delegate Thomas E. Dewberry, District 47B
- Delegate John P. Donoghue, District 2C
- Delegate Adelaide C. Eckardt, District 37B
- Delegate George C. Edwards, District 1A
- Delegate Peter Franchot, District 20
- Delegate Donald C. Fry, District 35A
- Delegate Sharon M. Grosfeld, District 18
- Delegate Hattie N. Harrison, District 45
- Delegate Sue C. Hecht, District 3
- Delegate Sheila Ellis Hixson, District 20
- Delegate James W. Hubbard, District 23
- Delegate Brenda B. Hughes, District 25
- Delegate John Adams Hurson, District 18
- Chairman, Judiciary Comm.
- Delegate Nancy K. Kopp, District 16
- Delegate Mary Ann E. Love, District 32
- Delegate Maggie L. McIntosh, District 42
- Delegate Pauline H. Menes, District 21
- Delegate Kenneth C. Montague, Jr., District 43
- Delegate Shirley Nathan-Pulliam, District 10
- Delegate George W. Owings, III, District 27B
- Delegate Joan N. Parker, District 10
- Delegate Shane E. Pendergrass, District 13A
- Delegate Carol Stoker Petzold, District 19
- Delegate Joan B. Pitkin, District 23
- Delegate Howard P. Rawlings, District 40
- Delegate Samuel I. Rosenberg, District 42
- Delegate John F. Slade, III, District 29B
- Delegate J. Anita Stup, District 3
- Delegate Carmena F. Watson, District 44
- Delegate Ellen L. Willis, District 5
- Bill indexed under the following Subjects:
- DIVORCE -see also- ANNULMENT
- DOMESTIC VIOLENCE
- FAMILY LAW -see also- ADOPTION; DIVORCE; DOMESTIC VIOLENCE
- Bill affects the following Statute:
- Family Law
- (
7-103
)
- Bill Text:
- First Reading (PDF),
Third Reading (PDF), Enrolled
- Fiscal Note:
Available (PDF)
Amendments:
- House
- Number: 242399/3 (PDF) Offered on: MARCH 18, 1997 at: 11:20
Status: Adopted
- Number: 791880/1 (PDF) Offered on: MARCH 11, 1997 at: 10:37
Status: Adopted
- Number: 881082/1 (PDF) Offered on: MARCH 11, 1997 at: 10:35
Status: Withdrawn