File Code: Civil Actions and Procedures
- Sponsored By:
-
Delegates Doory, Montague, Preis, Fry, Harkins, Jacobs, Love, M. Burns,
and Krysiak
- Entitled:
-
Certificates of Merit - Licensed Professionals
Requiring a claimant in a malpractice action against specified
professionals to file a certificate from a qualified expert; requiring
a certificate to contain a statement that the defendant failed to meet
professional standards; requiring the certificate to be filed within
90 days after the claim is filed; authorizing the court to grant a
waiver or modification of the certificate or to extend the filing
deadline; establishing qualifications of a qualified expert; providing
for specified discovery; etc.
House Action
- 2/21
- First Reading Judiciary
- 2/24
- Hearing 3/6 at 1:00 p.m.
- 3/20
- Favorable with Amendments Report by Judiciary
- Favorable with Amendments Report Adopted
- Special Order 3/21 (Delegate Gordon) Adopted
- 3/21
- Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- 3/22
- Third Reading Passed (133-3)
Senate Action
- 3/24
- First Reading Judicial Proceedings
- 3/25
- Hearing 4/1 at 1:00 p.m.
- Sponsored by:
- Delegate Ann Marie Doory, District 43
- Delegate Michael W. Burns, District 32
- Delegate Donald C. Fry, District 35A
- Delegate James M. Harkins, District 35A
- Delegate Nancy Jacobs, District 34
- Delegate Carolyn J. Krysiak, District 46
- Delegate Mary Ann E. Love, District 32
- Delegate Kenneth C. Montague, Jr., District 43
- Delegate Mary Louise Preis, District 34
- Bill indexed under the following Subjects:
- ARCHITECTS
- CIVIL ACTIONS -see also- SMALL CLAIMS
- COURTS -see also- CIRCUIT COURTS; DISTRICT COURTS
- ENGINEERS
- INTERIOR DESIGNERS
- LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTS
- SURVEYORS
- Bill affects the following Statutes:
- Courts and Judicial Proceedings
- (
3-2C-02 ,
3-2C-01
)
- Bill Text:
- First Reading (PDF),
Third Reading (PDF), Enrolled
- Fiscal Note:
Available (PDF)
Amendments:
- House
- Number: 151281/3 (PDF) Offered on: MARCH 20, 1997 at: 16:42
Status: Adopted