CHAPTER NUMBER: 397
File Code: Public Health
Crossfiled with: SENATE BILL 413
- Sponsored By:
-
Delegates Hubbard, Benson, Bobo, Donoghue, Dumais, Elliott,
Goldwater, Gutierrez, Impallaria, Kach, Kullen, Mandel, Morhaim,
Murray, Nathan-Pulliam, Pendergrass, Quinter, Rudolph, and V. Turner
- Entitled:
-
Civil Actions - Defenses - Sales of Food, Drugs, Cosmetics, and Other
Health-Related Products
Abolishing in specified civil actions a defense of indirect contact
with the person on whose behalf the action is brought for a person
that sells, distributes, or otherwise disposes of food, drugs,
cosmetics, and specified other health-related products; authorizing
the person to prove that all or any part of an alleged overcharge
ultimately was passed on to another person by a purchaser or seller in
the chain of manufacture, production, or distribution who paid the
alleged overcharge; etc.
House Action
- 2/9
- First Reading Judiciary
- Hearing 2/22 at 1:00 p.m.
- 3/14
- Favorable with Amendments Report by Judiciary
- 3/15
- Favorable with Amendments Report Adopted
- Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- 3/17
- Third Reading Passed (126-9)
- 3/31
- Returned Passed
Senate Action
- 3/18
- First Reading Finance
- 3/23
- Hearing 3/30 at 1:00 p.m.
- 4/1
- Favorable Report by Finance
- Favorable Report Adopted
- Second Reading Passed
- 4/2
- Third Reading Passed (45-2)
Action after passage in House and Senate
- 5/10
- Signed by the Governor Chapter 397
Sponsored by:
- Delegate James W. Hubbard, District 23A
- Delegate Joanne C. Benson, District 24
- Delegate Elizabeth Bobo, District 12B
- Delegate John P. Donoghue, District 2C
- Delegate Kathleen M. Dumais, District 15
- Delegate Donald B. Elliott, District 4B
- Delegate Marilyn R. Goldwater, District 16
- Delegate Ana Sol Gutierrez, District 18
- Delegate Rick Impallaria, District 7
- Delegate Wade Kach, District 5B
- Delegate Sue Kullen, District 27B
- Delegate Adrienne A. Mandel, District 19
- Delegate Dan K. Morhaim, District 11
- Delegate Gareth E. Murray, District 20
- Delegate Shirley Nathan-Pulliam, District 10
- Delegate Shane E. Pendergrass, District 13
- Delegate Neil F. Quinter, District 13
- Delegate David D. Rudolph, District 34B
- Delegate Veronica Turner, District 26
Bill indexed under the following Subjects:
- ANTITRUST ENFORCEMENT
- ATTORNEY GENERAL
- CIVIL ACTIONS -see also- SMALL CLAIMS
- DRUGS -see also- CONTROLLED DANGEROUS SUB; SUBSTANCE ABUSE
- EQUIPMENT -see also- MOTOR VEHICLE EQUIPMENT
- FOOD -see also- KOSHER; MEAT, POULTRY, SEAFOOD; MILK
- HEALTH -see also- MENTAL HEALTH
- PRICES -see also- CONSUMER PRICE INDEX
Bill affects the following Statutes:
- Commercial Law
- (
11-209 ,
11-209
)
- Health - General
- (
21-1114
)
- Bill Text (Displayed in PDF Format):
First Reading,
Third Reading, Enrolled
- Fiscal Note (Displayed in PDF Format):
Available
- Amendments (Displayed in WordPerfect 8 Format):
House
- Number: 292713/01 (PDF) Offered on: March 15, 2005 at:
11:38 a.m. Status: Adopted
- Roll Call Votes (Legislative dates are shown):
House
- March 17, 2005: Third Reading Passed (126-9)
Senate
- April 2, 2005: Third Reading Passed (45-2)