File Code: Civil Actions and Procedures
Crossfiled with: HOUSE BILL 742
- Sponsored By:
-
Senators Schrader, Astle, Colburn, Dyson, Haines, Harris,
Jacobs, Mooney, and Munson
- Entitled:
-
Vehicle Laws - Uninsured Motorists - Waiver of Right to Noneconomic
Damages
Establishing that an owner of a motor vehicle who knows or has reason
to know that the vehicle is not covered by insurance and who is
injured in a vehicular accident while operating the vehicle is deemed
to have waived the right to recover noneconomic damages in an action
against an individual operating an insured vehicle; establishing
exceptions; and establishing a rebuttable presumption that a person
knows that a motor vehicle is not covered by insurance under specified
circumstances.
Senate Action
- 1/31
- First Reading Judicial Proceedings
- 2/5
- Hearing 2/18 at 1:00 p.m.
House Action
- No Action
- Sponsored by:
- Senator Sandra B. Schrader, District 13
- Senator John C. Astle, District 30
- Senator Richard F. Colburn, District 37
- Senator Roy P. Dyson, District 29
- Senator Larry E. Haines, District 5
- Senator Andrew P. Harris, District 7
- Senator Nancy Jacobs, District 34
- Senator Alexander X. Mooney, District 3
- Senator Donald F. Munson, District 2
- Bill indexed under the following Subjects:
- ACCIDENTS
- CIVIL ACTIONS -see also- SMALL CLAIMS
- DAMAGES
- MOTOR VEHICLES -see also- ABANDONED; AMBULANCES; BUSES; etc.
- MOTOR VEHICLE INSURANCE -see also- MD AUTO INSURANCE FUND
- Bill affects the following Statute:
- Transportation
- (
17-107
)
- Bill Text:
First Reading (PDF),
Third Reading, Enrolled
- Fiscal Note:
Available (PDF)
- Amendments:
None offered