File Code: Family Law
Prior Year Introduction As: SB 367/96 - JPR
Crossfiled with: SENATE BILL 63  
- Sponsored By: 
 - 
Delegates Montague and Doory
 
- Entitled: 
 - 
Divorce - Educational Seminar on Effects on Children
 
Authorizing a court to require that parties to specified divorce
actions attend an educational seminar on the effects of divorce on
their children prior to the granting of a divorce decree; authorizing
the Court of Appeals of Maryland to adopt rules to implement the Act;
providing that seminar services may be contracted with a public or
private agency; clarifying that information obtained from a seminar is
not admissible during the action for divorce; etc.
House Action
- 2/7
 - First Reading Judiciary
 -      Hearing 2/19 at 1:00 p.m.
 - 2/24
 - Favorable with Amendments Report by Judiciary
 - 2/25
 - Favorable with Amendments Report Adopted
 -      Second Reading Passed with Amendments
 - 2/27
 - Third Reading Passed (117-17)
 - 3/31
 - House Refuses to Concur - Senate Amendments
 -      House Requests Senate Recede
 -      Conference Committee Appointed ...
 -      Delegates Montague, Grosfeld, Jacobs
 
Senate Action
- 2/28
 - First Reading Judicial Proceedings
 - 4/3
 - Favorable Report by Judicial Proceedings
 -      Favorable Report Adopted
 -      Second Reading Passed
 - 4/4
 - Floor Amendment (Senator Hafer) Adopted (32-15)
 -      Third Reading Passed with Amendments (47-0)
 - 4/5
 - Senate Refuses to Recede
 -      Conference Committee Appointed ...
 -      Senators Haines, Ferguson, Colburn
 
- Sponsored by:
 - Delegate Kenneth C. Montague, Jr., District 43
 - Delegate Ann Marie Doory, District 43
 
- Bill indexed under the following Subjects:
 - COURT OF APPEALS
 - DIVORCE -see also- ANNULMENT
 - EDUCATION -see also- PUBLIC SCHOOLS; SPECIAL ED.; HIGHER ED.
 - FAMILY LAW -see also- ADOPTION; DIVORCE; DOMESTIC VIOLENCE
 - MINORS -see also- AGE OF MAJORITY; JUVENILE CAUSES; YOUTH
 - RULES AND REGULATIONS
 
- Bill affects the following Statute:
 -   Family Law
 - (
 7-103.2 
)
 
- Bill Text:
 -  First Reading (PDF),
Third Reading (PDF), Enrolled 
 - Fiscal Note:
 Available (PDF) 
Amendments: 
- House 
 - Number: 711384/1 (PDF) Offered on: FEBRUARY 25, 1997  at: 10:36
 Status: Adopted         
 - Senate
 - Number: 142595/1 (PDF) Offered on: APRIL 4, 1997      at: 10:56
 Status: Adopted