2003 Regular Session
Family Law (D4)
Current Status of Legislation Total number of Bills: 34
- Sponsored By
- Chairman, Judiciary Committee (By Request - Maryland Judicial Conference)
- Entitled
- Marriage Ceremonies - Authorized Officials - Fees
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Judiciary
Senate: Judicial Proceedings
- Sponsored By
- Delegate Jones
- Entitled
- Child Support Enforcement - Earnings Withholding
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Judiciary
Senate: Judicial Proceedings
- Sponsored By
- Delegate Jones
- Entitled
- Social Security Numbers - Mandatory Inclusion on Marriage and Recreational Fishing License Applications
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Judiciary
Senate: Judicial Proceedings
- Sponsored By
- Chairman, Judiciary Committee (By Request - Maryland Judicial Conference -- Foster Care Court Improvement Project)
- Entitled
- Permanency for Families and Children Act of 2003
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Judiciary
- Sponsored By
- Delegates Gordon and Simmons
- Entitled
- Family Law - Child Support - Counsel Fees
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Judiciary
- Sponsored By
- Delegate Sophocleus
- Entitled
- Family Law - Marriage Ceremonies - Orphans' Court Judges
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Judiciary
- Sponsored By
- Delegate Rawlings
- Entitled
- Child Support Enforcement - Intercepting Lottery and Video Lottery Winnings
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Judiciary
- Sponsored By
- Chairman, Judiciary Committee (By Request - Maryland Judicial Conference)
- Entitled
- Family Law - Desertion and Nonsupport of Child - Jurisdiction, Enforcement, and Penalties
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Judiciary
- Sponsored By
- Delegate Jones
- Entitled
- Child Support Enforcement - Financial Institution - Definition
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Judiciary
Senate: Judicial Proceedings
- Sponsored By
- Delegates Dumais, Anderson, Barkley, Gutierrez, Lee, McComas, Montgomery, Petzold, and Simmons
- Entitled
- Family Law - Grounds for Absolute Divorce
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Judiciary
Senate: Judicial Proceedings
- Sponsored By
- Delegates Zirkin, Morhaim, Benson, Boutin, Bromwell, Costa, Elliott, Goldwater, Hammen, Haynes, Hubbard, Hurson, Kach, Mandel, McDonough, Murray, Nathan-Pulliam, Oaks, Pendergrass, Redmer, Rosenberg, Rudolph, Smigiel, V. Turner, and Weldon
- Entitled
- Children with Disabilities - Voluntary Placements
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Health and Government Operations
Senate: Judicial Proceedings
- Sponsored By
- Delegates Zirkin and Morhaim
- Entitled
- Family Law - Central Registry - Exception
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Judiciary
Senate: Judicial Proceedings
HB 534
Status as of March 4, 2003: Bill is in the House - First Reading Health and Government Operations
- Sponsored By
- Delegates Zirkin and Morhaim
- Entitled
- Children with Disabilities - Individual Treatment Plans
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Health and Government Operations
- Sponsored By
- Delegates Menes and Hixson
- Entitled
- Family Law - Reporting of Out-of-State Child Abuse and Neglect
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Judiciary
Senate: Judicial Proceedings
- Sponsored By
- Delegates Branch, Rawlings, Bates, Bromwell, Cadden, Conway, Donoghue, Edwards, Franchot, Fulton, Harrison, James, Krysiak, Paige, Proctor, Redmer, Shank, and Stocksdale
- Entitled
- Department of Human Resources - Child Support Enforcement Privatization Pilot Program and Demonstration Sites - Established
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Appropriations
Senate: Finance
- Sponsored By
- Chairman, Judiciary Committee (By Request - Departmental - Human Resources)
- Entitled
- Child in Need of Assistance Proceedings - Permanency Plan Review Hearings
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Judiciary
Senate: Judicial Proceedings
- Sponsored By
- Delegates King, Murray, Barkley, Cardin, Feldman, Gordon, Gutierrez, Heller, Kaiser, Ramirez, Simmons, Stern, and Taylor
- Entitled
- Family Law - Child Support - Termination
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Judiciary
- Sponsored By
- Delegates McIntosh, Brown, Gutierrez, Hixson, Hutchins, Jones, Lee, and Menes
- Entitled
- Family Law - Child Abuse and Neglect - Reporting by Members of the Clergy
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Judiciary
HB 1071
Status as of March 22, 2003: Bill is in the House - Withdrawn Health and Government Operations
- Sponsored By
- Delegates Boutin and Pendergrass
- Entitled
- Child Care - Regulations - Continuing Child Care Licenses
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Health and Government Operations
- Sponsored By
- Delegates McComas, Boteler, Frank, and Sophocleus
- Entitled
- Family Law - Adoption - Child's Age for Consent
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Judiciary
- Sponsored By
- Delegate O'Donnell
- Entitled
- Child Custody and Visitation - Child Abduction
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Judiciary
- Sponsored By
- Delegates O'Donnell, Burns, Ross, and Zirkin
- Entitled
- Children - Joint Legal Custody and Equal Parenting Time - Preference
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Judiciary
- Sponsored By
- Senators Kelley, Britt, Brochin, Conway, DeGrange, Exum, Forehand, Grosfeld, Hollinger, Hooper, Hughes, Jacobs, Jones, Klausmeier, Lawlah, Munson, Ruben, Stone, and Teitelbaum
- Entitled
- Family Law - Custody and Unsupervised Visitation - Child Abuse
- Committee
Assignments -
Senate: Judicial Proceedings
House: Judiciary
- Sponsored By
- Chairman, Judicial Proceedings Committee (Maryland Judicial Conference)
- Entitled
- Marriage Ceremonies - Authorized Officials - Fees
- Committee
Assignments -
Senate: Judicial Proceedings
- Sponsored By
- Senators Jacobs, Colburn, Greenip, Hooper, Kelley, Klausmeier, and Lawlah
- Entitled
- Family Law - Marriage Ceremonies - Solicitation
- Committee
Assignments -
Senate: Judicial Proceedings
House: Judiciary
- Sponsored By
- Senators Kelley and Forehand
- Entitled
- Family Law - Child Abuse and Neglect - Failure to Report - Penalty
- Committee
Assignments -
Senate: Judicial Proceedings
House: Judiciary
- Sponsored By
- Senators Grosfeld, Britt, Forehand, Gladden, Hollinger, Jacobs, Jones, Kelley, Kramer, Lawlah, and Ruben
- Entitled
- Family Law - Grounds for Absolute Divorce
- Committee
Assignments -
Senate: Judicial Proceedings
House: Judiciary
- Sponsored By
- Chairman, Judicial Proceedings Committee (Maryland Judicial Conference)
- Entitled
- Family Law - Desertion and Nonsupport of Child - Jurisdiction, Enforcement, and Penalties
- Committee
Assignments -
Senate: Judicial Proceedings
House: Judiciary
- Sponsored By
- Chairman, Judicial Proceedings Committee (By Request - Maryland Judicial Conference -- Foster Care Court Improvement Project)
- Entitled
- Permanency for Families and Children Act of 2003
- Committee
Assignments -
Senate: Judicial Proceedings
- Sponsored By
- Senator Jimeno
- Entitled
- Child Support Enforcement - Earnings Withholding
- Committee
Assignments -
Senate: Judicial Proceedings
House: Judiciary
- Sponsored By
- Senators Kelley, Brochin, and Grosfeld
- Entitled
- Family Law - Child Abuse and Neglect - Reporting by Members of the Clergy
- Committee
Assignments -
Senate: Judicial Proceedings
- Sponsored By
- Senator Jacobs
- Entitled
- Children with Disabilities - Voluntary Placements
- Committee
Assignments -
Senate: Judicial Proceedings
House: Health and Government Operations
- Sponsored By
- Senators Mooney, Hafer, Harris, Jacobs, Klausmeier, and Stone
- Entitled
- Family Law - Domestic Violence - Address Confidentiality Program
- Committee
Assignments -
Senate: Judicial Proceedings
House: Judiciary
- Sponsored By
- Senators Pipkin, Astle, DeGrange, Exum, Hafer, Harris, Jacobs, Kittleman, Lawlah, Mooney, Munson, Schrader, and Teitelbaum
- Entitled
- Department of Human Resources - Child Support Enforcement Privatization Pilot Program and Demonstration Sites - Established
- Committee
Assignments -
Senate: Finance
House: Appropriations
