HOUSE BILL 681

File Code: Family Law Crossfiled with: SENATE BILL 161

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, Watson, Petzold, Nathan-Pulliam, Willis, McIntosh, Parker, Rosenberg, B. Hughes, Branch, Edwards, Donoghue, Franchot, Brinkley, Eckardt, Bobo, Conroy, Fry, Hubbard, and Pitkin

Entitled:

Evidence - Assault Trials - Spousal Privilege - Record of Assertion

Synopsis:

Requiring that the clerk of the court make and maintain a record of the refusal of a spouse of a person on trial for assault, in which the spouse was a victim, to testify; requiring that the clerk of the court make and maintain a separate record of a spouse's refusal to testify when an expungement order is presented; specifying the contents of the separate record; limiting the availability of the separate record; and providing that the separate record is not subject to expungement.

Legislative History

House Action

1/30

First Reading Judiciary

Hearing 2/11 at 1:00 p.m.

3/3

Favorable with Amendments Report by Judiciary

3/4

Favorable with Amendments Report Adopted

Second Reading Passed with Amendments

3/6

Third Reading Passed (136-0)

3/30

Returned Passed

5/22

Governor vetoed - Cross-filed bill was signed

Senate Action

3/7

First Reading Judicial Proceedings

3/31

Favorable Report by Judicial Proceedings

4/1

Favorable Report Adopted

Second Reading Passed

4/2

Third Reading Passed (47-0)

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 J. Anita Stup, District 3

Delegate Carmena F. Watson, District 44

Delegate Ellen L. Willis, District 5

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 )

Documents:

Bill Text:

First Reading (PDF), Third Reading (PDF), Enrolled

Fiscal Note: Available (PDF)

Amendments:

House

Number: 121788/1 (PDF) Offered on: MARCH 4, 1997 at: 11:49 Status: Adopted