2003 Regular Session
FAMILY LAW -see also- ADOPTION; ANNULMENT; DIVORCE; etc
Status of Legislation
Total number of Bills: 34
- 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
- Delegates Rosenberg and Branch
- Entitled
- Welfare Innovation Act of 2003
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Appropriations
- 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
- 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
- Delegate Rosenberg
- Entitled
- Task Force on Child Welfare System Accountability
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Appropriations
HB 481
Status as of April 7, 2003: Bill is in the Senate - Unfavorable Education Health and Environmental Affairs
- Sponsored By
- Delegates Rosenberg, Hubbard, Nathan-Pulliam, Oaks, and Pendergrass
- Entitled
- Health - In Vitro Services - Advance Directives for Disposition of Cryopreserved Eggs, Sperm, or Embryos
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Health and Government Operations
Senate: Education Health and Environmental Affairs
- 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
- Delegate Zirkin
- Entitled
- Health Care Records - Confidentiality - Ex Parte Communications With Health Care Providers
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Judiciary
- Sponsored By
- Delegates Zirkin, Burns, Jones, Morhaim, Nathan-Pulliam, and O'Donnell
- Entitled
- Juvenile Causes - Children in Out-of-Home Placement - Uniform System of Outcomes Evaluation
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Judiciary
- 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 Hixson, Cardin, Healey, King, Ramirez, Ross, Bartlett, Boschert, Bozman, Cryor, C. Davis, Elmore, Gordon, Heller, Howard, Jones, Kaiser, Marriott, McKee, Myers, Patterson, and Rzepkowski
- Entitled
- Education - Early Childhood Educational and Developmental Programs
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Ways and Means
Senate: Education Health and Environmental Affairs
HB 772
Status as of March 22, 2003: Bill is in the House - Withdrawn Health and Government Operations
- Sponsored By
- Delegates Amedori, O'Donnell, Aumann, Bates, Boschert, Boteler, Boutin, Bozman, Burns, Conroy, Costa, DeBoy, Donoghue, Dwyer, Elliott, Elmore, Frank, Glassman, Hogan, Impallaria, Jennings, Kach, Krebs, Krysiak, Leopold, McConkey, McDonough, McMillan, Minnick, Myers, Owings, Parrott, Redmer, Smigiel, Sophocleus, Sossi, Stocksdale, Trueschler, Walkup, Weldon, and Wood
- Entitled
- Public Health - Abortion - Parental Notice
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Health and Government Operations
- 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
- Sponsored By
- Delegate Rudolph
- Entitled
- Motor Vehicle Administration - Identification Cards for Children - Expiration Date
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Environmental Matters
Senate: Judicial Proceedings
- Sponsored By
- The Minority Leader (By Request - Administration)
- Entitled
- Budget Reconciliation and Financing Act of 2003
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Appropriations
Senate: Budget and Taxation
- Sponsored By
- Delegates Zirkin, Amedori, and O'Donnell
- Entitled
- Residential Child Care Programs - Direct Care Staff - Qualifications
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Ways and Means
- Sponsored By
- Delegates McComas, Boteler, Frank, and Sophocleus
- Entitled
- Family Law - Adoption - Child's Age for Consent
- Committee
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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, Colburn, Conway, Della, Giannetti, Gladden, Grosfeld, Hollinger, Hooper, Jacobs, Jones, Lawlah, Mooney, Stoltzfus, and Teitelbaum
- Entitled
- Informal Kinship Care - Consent to Health Care on Behalf of a Child
- Committee
Assignments -
Senate: Education Health and Environmental Affairs
House: Appropriations
- Sponsored By
- Senators Kelley, Hollinger, Britt, Colburn, Conway, Della, Giannetti, Gladden, Grosfeld, Hooper, Jacobs, Jones, Lawlah, Mooney, Stoltzfus, and Teitelbaum
- Entitled
- Education - Children in Informal Kinship Care Relationships
- Committee
Assignments -
Senate: Education Health and Environmental Affairs
House: Ways and Means
- 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
- 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 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
- Senators Kelley, Brochin, and Grosfeld
- Entitled
- Family Law - Child Abuse and Neglect - Reporting by Members of the Clergy
- Committee
Assignments -
Senate: Judicial Proceedings
SB 437
Status as of February 12, 2003: Bill is in the Senate - Re-assigned Education Health and Environmental Affairs
- Sponsored By
- Senator Giannetti
- Entitled
- Health Care Records - Confidentiality - Ex Parte Communications With Health Care Providers
- Committee
Assignments -
Senate: Education Health and Environmental Affairs
SB 457
Status as of March 27, 2003: Bill is in the Senate - Withdrawn Education Health and Environmental Affairs
- Sponsored By
- Senators Jacobs, DeGrange, Dyson, Giannetti, Haines, Harris, Hooper, Jimeno, Mooney, Stoltzfus, and Stone
- Entitled
- Public Health - Abortion - Parental Notice
- Committee
Assignments -
Senate: Education Health and Environmental Affairs
- Sponsored By
- Senator Jacobs
- Entitled
- Children with Disabilities - Voluntary Placements
- Committee
Assignments -
Senate: Judicial Proceedings
House: Health and Government Operations
