File Code: Vehicle Laws - Miscellaneous
Prior Year Introduction As: HB 996/96 - ECM
- Sponsored By: 
 - 
Delegates Kach, Love, McClenahan, Crumlin, Kirk, Eckardt, Donoghue, V.
Mitchell, Walkup, Kelly, La Vay, Schade, and M. Burns
 
- Entitled: 
 - 
Vehicle Laws - Uninsured Motorists
 - Waiver
 of Right to Noneconomic Damages
 
Establishing that an individual driving a motor vehicle that is not
covered by insurance is considered to have waived the right to recover
noneconomic loss damages under specified circumstances; exempting
specified individuals from the waiver under specified circumstances;
and creating a rebuttable presumption that an individual knows or has
reason to know that a vehicle is not covered by insurance under
specified circumstances.
House Action
- 1/31
 - First Reading Economic Matters
 - 2/12
 - Hearing 3/11 at 1:00 p.m.
 - 3/25
 - Favorable with Amendments Report by Economic Matters
 - 3/23
 - Favorable with Amendments Report Adopted
 -      Second Reading Passed with Amendments
 - 3/24
 - Third Reading Passed (135-1)
 
Senate Action
- 3/26
 - First Reading Senate Rules
 - 4/4
 - Re-referred Judicial Proceedings
 
- Sponsored by:
 - Delegate A. Wade Kach, District 9A
 - Delegate Michael W. Burns, District 32
 - Delegate Michael A. Crumlin, District 25
 - Delegate John P. Donoghue, District 2C
 - Delegate Adelaide C. Eckardt, District 37B
 - Delegate James M. Kelly, District 9B
 - Delegate Ruth M. Kirk, District 44
 - Delegate Richard La Vay, District 15
 - Delegate Mary Ann E. Love, District 32
 - Delegate Charles A. McClenahan, District 38
 - Delegate Van T. Mitchell, District 28
 - Delegate Victoria L. Schade, District 31
 - Delegate Mary Roe Walkup, District 36
 
- Bill indexed under the following Subjects:
 - CIVIL ACTIONS -see also- SMALL CLAIMS
 - COURTS -see also- CIRCUIT COURTS; DISTRICT COURTS
 - DAMAGES
 - DRUNK AND DRUGGED DRIVING
 - EVIDENCE
 - MOTOR VEHICLE INSURANCE -see also- MD AUTO INSURANCE FUND
 
- Bill affects the following Statute:
 -   Transportation
 - (
 17-107 
)
 
- Bill Text:
 -  First Reading (PDF),
Third Reading (PDF), Enrolled 
 - Fiscal Note:
 Available (PDF) 
Amendments: 
- House 
 - Number: 683367/1 (PDF) Offered on: MARCH 25, 1997     at: 11:14
 Status: Adopted