File Code: Civil Actions and Procedures
Prior Year Introduction As: SB 185/02 - JPR
Crossfiled with: HOUSE BILL 340
- Sponsored By:
-
Senators Kelley, Conway, Currie, Forehand, Giannetti, Gladden,
Grosfeld, Hughes, Jacobs, Jones, Lawlah, McFadden, Ruben, and Stone
- Entitled:
-
Courts - Right of Party to Be Present at Trial
Providing that, absent a voluntary waiver, a party to a judicial
action may not be excluded from the trial except to preserve decorum
or to continue the orderly proceedings of the court; providing that
this right may not be abridged by specified rule or regulation of the
court as issued by the Court of Appeals; and stating the intent of the
General Assembly that a party to a judicial action has a fundamental
right to be present at the trial of that action, notwithstanding the
party's disability.
Senate Action
- 1/24
- First Reading Judicial Proceedings
- 2/5
- Hearing 2/26 at 1:00 p.m.
- 3/11
- Unfavorable Report by Judicial Proceedings
House Action
- No Action
- Sponsored by:
- Senator Delores G. Kelley, District 10
- Senator Joan Carter Conway, District 43
- Senator Ulysses Currie, District 25
- Senator Jennie M. Forehand, District 17
- Senator John A. Giannetti, Jr., District 21
- Senator Lisa A. Gladden, District 41
- Senator Sharon M. Grosfeld, District 18
- Senator Ralph M. Hughes, District 40
- Senator Nancy Jacobs, District 34
- Senator Verna L. Jones, District 44
- Senator Gloria Lawlah, District 26
- Senator Nathaniel J. McFadden, District 45
- Senator Ida G. Ruben, District 20
- Senator Norman R. Stone, Jr., District 6
- Bill indexed under the following Subjects:
- CIVIL ACTIONS -see also- SMALL CLAIMS
- COURT OF APPEALS
- COURTS -see also- CIRCUIT; APPEALS; DISTRICT; ORPHANS'; etc.
- DISABILITIES -see also- BLIND; DEAF; DEVELOPMENTAL
- DISCRIMINATION
- HUMAN RIGHTS
- RULES AND REGULATIONS
- TRIALS
- Bill affects the following Statutes:
- Courts and Judicial Proceedings
- (
1-201 ,
6-411
)
- Bill Text:
First Reading (PDF),
Third Reading, Enrolled
- Fiscal Note:
Available (PDF)
- Amendments:
None offered