CHAPTER NUMBER: 699
File Code: Bi-County Agencies
- Sponsored By:
-
Montgomery County and Prince George's County Delegations
- Entitled:
-
Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority - Rules and Regulations
- Adoption and Enforcement
MC/PG 35-97
Authorizing members of the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit
Authority (WMATA) police to carry and use Authority-issued weapons off
duty; requiring defined notice and public hearing procedures for the
adoption of WMATA regulations; requiring WMATA jurisdictions to
prosecute criminal violations of WMATA rules and regulations as they
prosecute all other criminal violations; and repealing a requirement
regarding reimbursement of WMATA by an individual convicted of a crime
against WMATA.
House Action
- 1/31
- First Reading Judiciary
- 2/5
- Hearing 2/28 at 1:00 p.m.
- 3/3
- Favorable Report by Judiciary
- 3/4
- Favorable Report Adopted
- Second Reading Passed
- 3/6
- Third Reading Passed (131-3)
- 3/28
- Returned Passed
- 5/22
- Signed by the Governor Chapter 699
Senate Action
- 3/7
- First Reading Senate Bi-County
- 3/27
- Favorable Report by Senate Bi-County
- Favorable Report Adopted
- Second Reading Passed
- 3/31
- Third Reading Passed (47-0)
- Bill indexed under the following Subjects:
- DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
- GUNS -see also- HUNTING
- HEARINGS
- INTERSTATE AFFAIRS
- LAW ENFORCEMENT -see also- STATE POLICE, DEPT. OF
- MASS TRANSIT -see also- BUSES; RAILROADS
- NOTICES
- RULES AND REGULATIONS
- WEAPONS -see also- GUNS
- Bill affects the following Statute:
- Transportation
- (
10-204
)
- Bill Text:
- First Reading (PDF),
Third Reading (PDF), Enrolled
- Fiscal Note:
Available (PDF)