2004 Regular Session
Family Law (D4)
Current Status of Legislation Total number of Bills: 60
- Sponsored By
- Delegate Boutin
- Entitled
- Valid Marriages
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Judiciary
- Sponsored By
- Delegate Anderson
- Entitled
- Family Law - Central Registry - Conviction for Child Abuse or Neglect
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Judiciary
- Sponsored By
- Delegates Cane, Bohanan, Bozman, Conway, C. Davis, Franchot, Harrison, Heller, Krysiak, Malone, McConkey, Owings, Proctor, Rudolph, Sophocleus, Sossi, F. Turner, Hurson, Hammen, Benson, Boteler, Boutin, Bromwell, Costa, Donoghue, Elliott, Goldwater, Kach, Mandel, McDonough, Morhaim, Murray, Nathan-Pulliam, Oaks, Pendergrass, Rosenberg, Smigiel, V. Turner, and Weldon
- Entitled
- Family Law - Adoption - Certificates of Birth
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Health and Government Operations
Senate: Judicial Proceedings
- Sponsored By
- Delegates F. Turner, Bobo, Boschert, Boutin, Cane, Conroy, DeBoy, Dumais, Elmore, Glassman, Gordon, Hubbard, Kaiser, Kelley, Love, Madaleno, Menes, Montgomery, Morhaim, Murray, Nathan-Pulliam, Owings, Parker, Patterson, Pendergrass, Petzold, Quinter, Ramirez, and Sophocleus
- Entitled
- Family Law - Adoption Search, Contact, and Reunion Services - Siblings
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Judiciary
Senate: Judicial Proceedings
- Sponsored By
- Delegate Elliott
- Entitled
- Child Abuse - Definition - Exemption for Reasonable Punishment by Parent or Stepparent
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Judiciary
- Sponsored By
- Delegates Jones, Cane, Howard, Kirk, Marriott, Nathan-Pulliam, Patterson, and Proctor
- Entitled
- Child Support - Incarcerated Obligors - Suspension of Payments and Accrual of Arrearages
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Judiciary
- Sponsored By
- Delegates Dumais and Feldman
- Entitled
- Maryland Uniform Child Custody Jurisdiction and Enforcement Act
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Judiciary
Senate: Judicial Proceedings
- Sponsored By
- Delegate Dumais
- Entitled
- Child Support - Arrearages - Notice to the Motor Vehicle Administration
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Judiciary
- Sponsored By
- Delegate Dumais
- Entitled
- Family Law - Child Support Arrearage - Driver's License Suspensions
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Judiciary
- Sponsored By
- Delegate Elliott
- Entitled
- Child Abuse and Neglect - Investigation Procedures
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Judiciary
- Sponsored By
- Delegates Kelley, Fulton, Howard, Jones, Marriott, Niemann, Parker, Patterson, Proctor, Ross, V. Turner, and Vaughn
- Entitled
- Family Law - Child Abuse and Neglect - Failure to Report - Penalty
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Judiciary
- Sponsored By
- Delegate Dumais
- Entitled
- Family Law - Child Support Guidelines
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Judiciary
Senate: Judicial Proceedings
- Sponsored By
- Delegate Dumais
- Entitled
- Child Support - Driver's License Suspension - Grounds for Requesting an Investigation and Appealing
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Judiciary
Senate: Judicial Proceedings
- Sponsored By
- Delegates Dumais, Amedori, Anderson, Barkley, Kelley, King, Lee, and Zirkin
- Entitled
- Family Law - Unattended Children
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Judiciary
- Sponsored By
- Delegates Burns, Boteler, Cane, Dwyer, Edwards, Frank, Impallaria, Kach, Kelly, McDonough, O'Donnell, Parker, and Trueschler
- Entitled
- Same Sex Marriages - Foreign Jurisdictions - Invalidity
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Judiciary
- 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 Dumais
- Entitled
- Family Law - Property Disposition - Transfer of Family Use Personal Property
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Judiciary
Senate: Judicial Proceedings
- Sponsored By
- Delegates Anderson and Vallario
- Entitled
- Juvenile Causes - Child in Need of Assistance - Court Hearings and Findings
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Judiciary
- Sponsored By
- Chairman, Judiciary Committee (By Request - Maryland Judicial Conference)
- Entitled
- Permanency for Families and Children Act of 2004
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Judiciary
- Sponsored By
- Delegate Kach
- Entitled
- Child Support - Postsecondary Education Funding
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Judiciary
- Sponsored By
- Delegates Dumais, Gordon, Hixson, Howard, King, and Marriott
- Entitled
- Family Law - Child Support - Age of Majority - Postsecondary Education
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Judiciary
- Sponsored By
- Delegate Weldon
- Entitled
- Family Law - Child Abuse and Neglect Investigations - Parental Rights
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Judiciary
- Sponsored By
- Delegates Weldon and Hogan
- Entitled
- Family Law - Children - De Facto Custody
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Judiciary
- Sponsored By
- Delegates Menes, Goldwater, Hubbard, Jones, and McComas
- Entitled
- Family Law - Child Abuse and Neglect - Reporting by Members of the Clergy
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Judiciary
- Sponsored By
- Delegates Zirkin, Amedori, Burns, Cardin, Jones, Morhaim, and Nathan-Pulliam
- Entitled
- Child Welfare Services - Children in Out-of-Home Placement
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Judiciary
Senate: Judicial Proceedings
- Sponsored By
- Delegates McComas, Boutin, Dumais, Frush, Menes, Petzold, Sossi, and F. Turner
- Entitled
- Domestic Violence - Protective Order - Penalty
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Judiciary
Senate: Judicial Proceedings
- Sponsored By
- Delegates McComas, Boteler, Boutin, Cryor, Glassman, Kach, and Sophocleus
- Entitled
- Family Law - Adoption - Child's Age for Consent
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Judiciary
- Sponsored By
- Delegates Boteler, Cluster, Bromwell, DeBoy, Frank, Impallaria, McDonough, and Weir
- Entitled
- Family Law - Termination of Parental Rights and Adoption - Rights of Foster Parents
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Judiciary
- Sponsored By
- Delegate O'Donnell
- Entitled
- Child Custody and Visitation - Child Abduction
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Judiciary
Senate: Judicial Proceedings
- Sponsored By
- Delegate O'Donnell
- Entitled
- Children - Joint Legal Custody and Equal Parenting Time - Preference
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Judiciary
- Sponsored By
- Delegate Quinter
- Entitled
- Protective Parent Reform Act
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Judiciary
HB 1316
Status as of March 3, 2004: Bill is in the House - Re-referred Health and Government Operations
- Sponsored By
- Delegate Krebs
- Entitled
- Family Law - Child Care Centers - Background Checks
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Health and Government Operations
HB 1479
Status as of April 7, 2004: Bill is in the House - Withdrawn Health and Government Operations
- Sponsored By
- Delegates McComas, Boutin, Glassman, Impallaria, James, Jennings, O'Donnell, and Parrott
- Entitled
- Family Law - Criminal Background Investigation for Employees and Other Individuals Who Care for or Supervise Children
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Health and Government Operations
- Sponsored By
- Chairman, Judicial Proceedings Committee (By Request - Departmental - Human Resources)
- Entitled
- Family Law - Child Support Enforcement - Earnings Withholding and Medical Support Notices
- Committee
Assignments -
Senate: Judicial Proceedings
House: Judiciary
- Sponsored By
- Chairman, Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs Committee (By Request - Departmental - Human Resources)
- Entitled
- Child Care - Family Day Care Home Registrations and Child Care Center Licenses
- Committee
Assignments -
Senate: Education Health and Environmental Affairs
House: Health and Government Operations
- Sponsored By
- Senators Kelley, Britt, Della, Exum, Gladden, Hafer, Hollinger, Hughes, Jones, Lawlah, Middleton, Garagiola, Brochin, Forehand, and Jacobs
- Entitled
- Family Law - Child Abuse and Neglect - Failure to Report - Penalty
- Committee
Assignments -
Senate: Judicial Proceedings
- Sponsored By
- Senators Mooney, Harris, Jacobs, Munson, Stoltzfus, and Stone
- Entitled
- Family Law - Domestic Violence - Address Confidentiality Program
- Committee
Assignments -
Senate: Judicial Proceedings
House: Judiciary
- Sponsored By
- Senators Grosfeld and Gladden
- Entitled
- Family Law - Child Support Arrearage - Driver's License Suspensions
- Committee
Assignments -
Senate: Judicial Proceedings
- Sponsored By
- Senators Kelley, Britt, Conway, Gladden, Grosfeld, Jones, Kramer, and Lawlah
- Entitled
- Family Law - Child Abuse and Neglect - Reporting by Members of the Clergy
- Committee
Assignments -
Senate: Judicial Proceedings
- Sponsored By
- Senators Grosfeld, Giannetti, and Gladden
- Entitled
- Child Support - Arrearages - Notice to the Motor Vehicle Administration
- Committee
Assignments -
Senate: Judicial Proceedings
- Sponsored By
- Senator Grosfeld
- Entitled
- Maryland Uniform Child Custody Jurisdiction and Enforcement Act
- Committee
Assignments -
Senate: Judicial Proceedings
House: Judiciary
- Sponsored By
- Senators Lawlah, Britt, Conway, Currie, Exum, Gladden, Grosfeld, Hughes, Jones, Kelley, and McFadden
- Entitled
- Child Support - Incarcerated Obligors - Suspension of Payments and Accrual of Arrearages
- Committee
Assignments -
Senate: Judicial Proceedings
- Sponsored By
- Senator Jacobs
- Entitled
- Child in Need of Assistance - Permanency Planning Hearings
- Committee
Assignments -
Senate: Judicial Proceedings
House: Judiciary
- Sponsored By
- Senators Grosfeld, Britt, Forehand, Giannetti, Gladden, Pinsky, and Teitelbaum
- Entitled
- Family Law - Child Support Guidelines
- Committee
Assignments -
Senate: Judicial Proceedings
House: Judiciary
- Sponsored By
- Senator Grosfeld
- Entitled
- Child Support - Driver's License Suspension - Grounds for Requesting an Investigation and Appealing
- Committee
Assignments -
Senate: Judicial Proceedings
House: Judiciary
- Sponsored By
- Senators Gladden, Brochin, Conway, Frosh, Giannetti, Grosfeld, Jones, and Klausmeier
- Entitled
- Child in Need of Assistance - Habitual Truancy
- Committee
Assignments -
Senate: Judicial Proceedings
- Sponsored By
- Senator Grosfeld
- Entitled
- Family Law - Property Disposition - Transfer of Family Use Personal Property
- Committee
Assignments -
Senate: Judicial Proceedings
House: Judiciary
- Sponsored By
- Chairman, Judicial Proceedings Committee (By Request - Maryland Judicial Conference)
- Entitled
- Marriage Ceremonies - Authorized Officials - Fees
- Committee
Assignments -
Senate: Judicial Proceedings
- Sponsored By
- Senator Jacobs
- Entitled
- Family Law - In Vitro Fertilization - Parental Rights
- Committee
Assignments -
Senate: Judicial Proceedings
- Sponsored By
- Senators Mooney, Brinkley, Hafer, Lawlah, and Munson
- Entitled
- Family Law - Children - De Facto Custody
- Committee
Assignments -
Senate: Judicial Proceedings
- Sponsored By
- Senators Garagiola, Brochin, Forehand, Giannetti, Gladden, Grosfeld, Haines, Hooper, Hughes, Jones, Kelley, Lawlah, McFadden, Ruben, and Stone
- Entitled
- Juvenile Causes - Child in Need of Assistance - Court Hearings and Findings
- Committee
Assignments -
Senate: Judicial Proceedings
- Sponsored By
- Senators Colburn, Hooper, Hafer, Harris, Jacobs, Mooney, Stoltzfus, and Stone
- Entitled
- Valid Marriages
- Committee
Assignments -
Senate: Judicial Proceedings
- Sponsored By
- Senator Gladden
- Entitled
- Children in Need of Assistance - Custody and Guardianship
- Committee
Assignments -
Senate: Judicial Proceedings
House: Judiciary
- Sponsored By
- Chairman, Judicial Proceedings Committee (By Request - Maryland Judicial Conference)
- Entitled
- Permanency for Families and Children Act of 2004
- Committee
Assignments -
Senate: Judicial Proceedings
- Sponsored By
- Senators Hooper, Colburn, Greenip, and Hafer
- Entitled
- Family Law - Child Support Guidelines - Calculations
- Committee
Assignments -
Senate: Judicial Proceedings
- Sponsored By
- Senators Jacobs and Giannetti
- Entitled
- Child Welfare Services - Children in Out-of-Home Placement
- Committee
Assignments -
Senate: Judicial Proceedings
House: Judiciary
- Sponsored By
- Senators Haines, Harris, and Jimeno
- Entitled
- Same Sex Marriages - Foreign Jurisdictions - Invalidity
- Committee
Assignments -
Senate: Judicial Proceedings
- Sponsored By
- Senator Jacobs
- Entitled
- Family Law - Criminal Background Investigation for Employees and Other Individuals Who Care for or Supervise Children
- Committee
Assignments -
Senate: Judicial Proceedings
- Sponsored By
- Senators Mooney and Stone
- Entitled
- Family Law - Child Abuse and Neglect Investigations - Parental Rights
- Committee
Assignments -
Senate: Judicial Proceedings
- Sponsored By
- Senator Stone
- Entitled
- Family Law - Child Support Guidelines - Third Party Payments
- Committee
Assignments -
Senate: Judicial Proceedings
House: Judiciary
