CHAPTER NUMBER: 523 
File Code: Criminal Law - Procedure
Prior Year Introduction As: HB 1269/96 - JUD
- Sponsored By: 
 - 
Delegates Klausmeier, D. Davis, DeCarlo, Mohorovic, McClenahan, M.
Burns, Owings, Malone, Dembrow, Conway, Stocksdale, Hammen, Bonsack,
Weir, and D. Murphy
 
- Entitled: 
 - 
Graffiti - Punishments for Adults and Juveniles
 
Requiring a court to order a person committing an act of graffiti to
pay restitution or perform community service; requiring the juvenile
court to order the child to perform community service or pay
restitution or both; etc.
House Action
- 2/10
 - First Reading Judiciary
 - 2/7
 - Hearing 2/26 at 1:00 p.m.
 - 3/17
 - Favorable with Amendments Report by Judiciary
 -      Favorable with Amendments Report Adopted
 -      Second Reading Passed with Amendments
 - 3/20
 - Third Reading Passed (138-0)
 - 3/31
 - Returned Passed
 - 5/8
 - Signed by the Governor Chapter 523
 
Senate Action
- 3/21
 - First Reading Judicial Proceedings
 -      Hearing 3/26 at 1:00 p.m.
 - 4/3
 - Favorable Report by Judicial Proceedings
 -      Favorable Report Adopted
 -      Second Reading Passed
 - 4/4
 - Third Reading Passed (43-4)
 
- Sponsored by:
 - Delegate Katherine Klausmeier, District 8
 - Delegate Rose Mary Hatem Bonsack, District 34
 - Delegate Michael W. Burns, District 32
 - Delegate Norman H. Conway, District 38
 - Delegate Dereck Davis, District 25
 - Delegate Diane DeCarlo, District 6
 - Delegate Dana Lee Dembrow, District 20
 - Delegate Peter A. Hammen, District 46
 - Delegate James E. Malone, Jr., District 12A
 - Delegate Charles A. McClenahan, District 38
 - Delegate Jacob J. Mohorovic, Jr., District 7
 - Delegate Donald E. Murphy, District 12A
 - Delegate George W. Owings, III, District 27B
 - Delegate Nancy Reter Stocksdale, District 5
 - Delegate Michael H. Weir, District 6
 
- Bill indexed under the following Subjects:
 - COURTS -see also- CIRCUIT COURTS; DISTRICT COURTS
 - CRIMES AND PUNISHMENTS -see also- PENALTIES; SENTENCES
 - JUVENILE CAUSES
 - MINORS -see also- AGE OF MAJORITY; JUVENILE CAUSES; YOUTH
 - PENALTIES
 - RESTITUTION
 - SENTENCES -see also- DEATH PENALTY
 - VANDALISM
 
- Bill affects the following Statutes:
 - Article - 27 Crimes and Punishments
 - (
 111 ,
 808 
)
 
- Bill Text:
 -  First Reading (PDF),
Third Reading (PDF), Enrolled 
 - Fiscal Note:
 Available (PDF) 
Amendments: 
- House 
 - Number: 081081/1 (PDF) Offered on: MARCH 17, 1997     at: 16:56
 Status: Adopted