CHAPTER NUMBER: 308
File Code: Family Law
Crossfiled with: HOUSE BILL 681
- Sponsored By:
-
Senators Kelley, Miller, Hoffman, Ruben, Roesser, Forehand, Van Hollen,
Frosh, Green, Trotter, Bromwell, Hollinger, Sfikas, Stone, Jimeno,
Pinsky, Middleton, Teitelbaum, Lawlah, Conway, Colburn, Hughes,
Middlebrooks, and Young
- Entitled:
-
Evidence - Assault Trials - Spousal Privilege - Record of Assertion
Requiring that the clerk of the court make and maintain a record of
the refusal of a spouse of a person on trial for assault, in which the
spouse was a victim, to testify; requiring that the clerk of the court
make and maintain a separate record of a spouse's refusal to testify
when an expungement order is presented; specifying the contents of the
separate record; limiting the availability of the separate record; and
providing that the separate record is not subject to expungement.
Senate Action
- 1/13
- First Reading Judicial Proceedings
- 1/22
- Hearing 2/4 at 1:00 p.m.
- 2/17
- Favorable with Amendments Report by Judicial Proceedings
- 2/18
- Favorable with Amendments Report Adopted
- Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- 2/20
- Third Reading Passed (47-0)
- 4/5
- Returned Passed
- 5/8
- Signed by the Governor Chapter 308
House Action
- 2/21
- First Reading Judiciary
- 3/18
- Hearing 4/1 at 1:00 p.m.
- 4/4
- Favorable Report by Judiciary
- 3/31
- Favorable Report Adopted
- Second Reading Passed
- 4/1
- Third Reading Passed (133-0)
- Sponsored by:
- Senator Delores G. Kelley, District 10
- Senator Thomas L. Bromwell, District 8
- Senator Richard F. Colburn, District 37
- Senator Joan Carter Conway, District 43
- Senator Jennie M. Forehand, District 17
- Senator Brian E. Frosh, District 16
- Senator Leo E. Green, District 23
- Senator Barbara A. Hoffman, District 42
- Senator Paula Colodny Hollinger, District 11
- Senator Ralph M. Hughes, District 40
- Senator Philip C. Jimeno, District 31
- Senator Gloria Gary Lawlah, District 26
- Senator C. Edward Middlebrooks, District 32
- Senator Thomas McLain Middleton, District 28
- Senator Thomas V. Mike Miller, Jr., District 27
- Senator Paul G. Pinsky, District 22
- Senator Jean W. Roesser, District 15
- Senator Ida G. Ruben, District 20
- Senator Perry Sfikas, District 46
- Senator Norman R. Stone, Jr., District 7
- Senator Leonard H. Teitelbaum, District 19
- Senator Decatur W. Trotter, District 24
- Senator Christopher Van Hollen, Jr., District 18
- Senator Larry Young, District 44
- Bill indexed under the following Subjects:
- ASSAULT
- CLERKS OF COURT
- DOMESTIC VIOLENCE
- RECORDS -see also- RCDNGS; LAND RCDS; VITAL RCDS; CRIM BKGD.
- TRIALS
- WITNESSES
- Bill affects the following Statute:
- Courts and Judicial Proceedings
- (
9-106
)
- Bill Text:
- First Reading (PDF),
Third Reading (PDF), Enrolled
- Fiscal Note:
Available (PDF)
Amendments:
- Senate
- Number: 428040/1 (PDF) Offered on: FEBRUARY 18, 1997 at: 11:06
Status: Adopted