File Code: Civil Actions and Procedures
Crossfiled with: SENATE BILL 13
- Sponsored By:
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Delegate Rosenberg
- Entitled:
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Civil Proceedings - Foreign Defamation Judgments - Recognition, Enforceability,
and Bases of Personal Jurisdiction
Authorizing a court in the State to exercise personal jurisdiction
under specified circumstances over a person who obtains a foreign
defamation judgment for the purpose of providing declaratory relief as
to liability or determining whether the judgment may not be recognized
in the State; establishing that foreign defamation judgments may not
be recognized in the State unless a State court makes a specified
determination about defamation law in the foreign jurisdiction;
applying the Act prospectively; etc.
Legislative date is used to record
history occurring in the Chambers
otherwise Calendar date is used.
House Action
- 1/22
- First Reading Judiciary
- Hearing 2/10 at 1:00 p.m.
- 2/9
- Hearing cancelled
- Hearing 2/19 at 1:00 p.m.
- 3/8
- Favorable with Amendments Report by Judiciary
- 3/9
- Favorable with Amendments Report Adopted
- Special Order 3/10 (Delegate O'Donnell) Adopted
- 3/10
- Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- 3/12
- Third Reading Passed (135-0)
- 4/2
- House Refuses to Concur - Senate Amendments
- House Requests Senate Recede
- Conference Committee Appointed
- Delegates Waldstreicher, Conaway, and McConkey
- 4/7
- Conference Committee Report Adopted
- Third Reading Passed (137-0)
- 4/8
- Passed Enrolled
Senate Action
- 3/16
- First Reading Judicial Proceedings
- 4/2
- Favorable with Amendments Report by Judicial Proceedings
- 3/31
- Favorable with Amendments Report Adopted
- Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- 4/1
- Third Reading Passed with Amendments (47-0)
- 4/6
- Senate Refuses to Recede
- Conference Committee Appointed
- Senators Raskin, Muse, and Simonaire
- 4/8
- Conference Committee Report Adopted
- Third Reading Passed (47-0)
Action after passage in House and Senate
- 5/20
- Approved by the Governor
- - Chapter 658
Bill indexed under the following Subjects:
- Civil Actions -see also- Small Claims
- Computers -see also- Electronic Commerce; Electronic Govmnt.
- Courts -see also- Circuit; Appeals; District; Orphans`; etc.
- Human Rights
- International Affairs -see also- Foreign Trade
- Judgments
- Jurisdiction
- Liability -see also- Good Samaritan
- Libel and Slander
- Privacy
Bill affects the following Statutes:
- Courts and Judicial Proceedings
- (
6-103.3 ,
10-704
)
All documents except Roll Call Votes are
displayed in PDF format:
- Bill Text:
First Reading,
Third Reading, Enrolled, Chapter
- Fiscal and Policy Note:
Available
- Attorney General Letter:
Available
- Amendments:
House
- Number: 522814/01 Offered on: March 9, 2010 at:
10:29 a.m. Status: Adopted
Senate
- Number: 538276/01 Offered on: April 2, 2010 at:
11:59 a.m. Status: Adopted
- Conference Committee Documents::
- Report Number: 753823/1 Offered on: April 12, 2010 at:
5:50 p.m. Status: Adopted
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Committee Votes :
House
- Judiciary
Senate
- Judicial Proceedings
- Roll Call Votes (Legislative dates are shown):
House
- March 12, 2010: Third Reading Passed (135-0)
- April 7, 2010: Third Reading Passed (137-0)
Senate
- April 1, 2010: Third Reading Passed (47-0)
- April 8, 2010: Third Reading Passed (47-0)