File Code: Public Safety
Prior Year Introduction As: HB 573/01 - CGM
- Sponsored By:
-
Delegates Valderrama, Howard, Brown, Patterson, and Hill
- Entitled:
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Law Enforcement Officers - Racial Profiling
Prohibiting a law enforcement officer from engaging in racial
profiling that involves the use of an individual's racial or ethnic
status as the sole factor in detaining, interdicting, or giving other
disparate treatment to the individual, in determining the existence of
probable cause for a specified reason, or in constituting the basis
for a specified detention or investigatory stop; creating specified
civil penalties; and authorizing specified suits against the law
enforcement officer and the law enforcement officer's employer.
House Action
- 2/8
- First Reading Judiciary
- 2/12
- Hearing 3/7 at 1:00 p.m.
- 3/18
- Unfavorable Report by Judiciary
Senate Action
- No Action
- Sponsored by:
- Delegate David M. Valderrama, District 26
- Delegate Anthony G. Brown, District 25
- Delegate Kerry A. Hill, District 26
- Delegate Carolyn J. B. Howard, District 24
- Delegate Obie Patterson, District 26
- Bill indexed under the following Subjects:
- ARRESTS
- CIVIL ACTIONS -see also- SMALL CLAIMS
- DISCRIMINATION -see also- SEX DISCRIMINATION
- LAW ENFORCEMENT -see also- STATE POLICE, DEPARTMENT OF
- MINORITIES -see also- WOMEN
- MOTOR VEHICLES -see also- ABANDONED; AMBULANCES; BUSES; etc.
- PENALTIES
- Bill affects the following Statute:
- Article - 27 Crimes and Punishments
- (
734E
)
- Bill Text:
First Reading (PDF),
Third Reading, Enrolled
- Fiscal Note:
Available (PDF)
- Amendments:
None offered