File Code: Public Health
Crossfiled with: HOUSE BILL 291
- Sponsored By:
-
Senators Brinkley, Raskin, Colburn, Currie, Forehand, Jacobs, Jennings,
Jones-Rodwell, Kelley, King, Kittleman, Klausmeier, Madaleno, Mathias, Miller,
Montgomery, Peters, Pinsky, Pugh, Reilly, Rosapepe, and Zirkin
- Entitled:
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Medical Marijuana - Affirmative Defenses - Maryland Medical Marijuana Model
Program Workgroup
Establishing that, in a prosecution for the use or possession of
marijuana, or the use or possession with intent to use drug
paraphernalia related to marijuana, it is an affirmative defense that
the defendant used or possessed marijuana or drug paraphernalia
related to marijuana because the defendant has a debilitating
condition, the condition is severe and resistant to conventional
medicine, and marijuana is likely to provide the defendant with
therapeutic or palliative relief from the condition; etc.
Legislative date is used to record
history occurring in the Chambers
otherwise Calendar date is used.
Senate Action
- 2/2
- First Reading Judicial Proceedings
- 2/9
- Hearing 3/3 at 1:00 p.m.
- 3/21
- Favorable with Amendments Report by Judicial Proceedings
- 3/22
- Favorable with Amendments Report Adopted
- Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- 3/24
- Third Reading Passed (41-6)
- 4/7
- Senate Concur - House Amendments
- Third Reading Passed (38-6)
- Passed Enrolled
House Action
- 3/22
- First Reading Health and Government Operations & Judiciary
- 3/29
- Hearing 4/1 at 1:00 p.m. (Health and Government Operations)
- Hearing 4/1 at 1:00 p.m. (Judiciary)
- 4/9
- Favorable with Amendments Report by Health and Government Operations
- 4/5
- Favorable with Amendments Report Adopted
- Motion Special Order until 4/11 (Delegate Sophocleus) Rejected (41-81)
- Floor Amendment (Delegate Haddaway-Riccio) Rejected (42-79)
- Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- 4/6
- Floor Amendment (Delegate Stifler) Rejected (43-82)
- Floor Amendment (Delegate Sophocleus) Rejected (49-82)
- Third Reading Passed with Amendments (83-50)
Action after passage in Senate and House
- 5/10
- Approved by the Governor
- - Chapter 215
Sponsored by:
- Senator David R. Brinkley, District 4
- Senator Richard F. Colburn, District 37
- Senator Ulysses Currie, District 25
- Senator Jennie M. Forehand, District 17
- Senator Nancy Jacobs, District 34
- Senator J. B. Jennings, District 7
- Senator Verna L. Jones-Rodwell, District 44
- Senator Delores G. Kelley, District 10
- Senator Nancy J. King, District 39
- Senator Allan H. Kittleman, District 9
- Senator Katherine Klausmeier, District 8
- Senator Richard S. Madaleno, Jr., District 18
- Senator James N. Mathias, Jr., District 38
- Senator Thomas V. Mike Miller, Jr., District 27
- Senator Karen S. Montgomery, District 14
- Senator Douglas J. J. Peters, District 23
- Senator Paul G. Pinsky, District 22
- Senator Catherine E. Pugh, District 40
- Senator Jamie Raskin, District 20
- Senator Edward R. Reilly, District 33
- Senator Jim Rosapepe, District 21
- Senator Bobby A. Zirkin, District 11
Bill indexed under the following Subjects:
- Agriculture, Department of
- Agriculture -see also- Farmland
- Chemical Tests
- Committees and Commissions -see also- Political Committees
- Controlled Dangerous Substances -see also- Drugs; Subst Abus
- Courts -see also- Circuit; Appeals; District; Orphans'; etc.
- Crime Control and Prevention, Governor's Office of
- Crimes and Punishments -see also- Penalties and Sentnc; etc.
- Criminal Background Investigations
- Diseases -see also- AIDS; Rabies
- Drugs -see also- Controlled Dangerous Sub; Substance Abuse
- Equipment -see also- Motor Vehicle Equipment
- Evidence
- Fees -see also- Attys' Fees; Devt Fees & Taxes; Reimb Rates.
- Fingerprinting
- Fraud -see also- Forgery
- Health -see also- Mental Health
- Health Insurance -see also- HMOS; Managed Care Organizations
- Health and Mental Hygiene, Department of
- Health Occupations -see also- specific health occupations
- Identification
- Licenses -see also- Alcoholic Bev Lic; Drivers' Licenses
- Notices
- Patients
- Penalties and Sentences -see also- Death Penalty
- Pharmacists and Pharmacies
- Physicians -see also- Dentists; Med Exmnrs; Psych; etc
- Privacy
- Procurement
- Records -see also- Land Records; Vital Records
- Registration -see also- Motor Vehicle Registration
- Reports
- Revenue and Taxes -see also- Dev Fees & Taxes; specific tax.
- Rules and Regulations
- Substance Abuse
- Sunset
- Witnesses
Bill affects the following Statutes:
- Criminal Law
- (
5-601 ,
5-619
)
- Health Occupations
- (
14-404
)
All documents except Roll Call Votes are
displayed in PDF format:
- Bill Text:
First Reading,
Third Reading, Enrolled, Chapter
- Fiscal and Policy Note:
Available
- Amendments:
Senate
- Number: 168071/01 Offered on: March 22, 2011 at:
12:33 p.m. Status: Adopted
House
- Number: 353121/01 Offered on: April 9, 2011 at:
6:05 p.m. Status: Rejected
- Number: 463421/01 Offered on: April 9, 2011 at:
1:13 p.m. Status: Rejected
- Number: 703724/01 Offered on: April 9, 2011 at:
6:08 p.m. Status: Rejected
- Number: 766487/01 Offered on: April 9, 2011 at:
12:24 p.m. Status: Adopted
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Committee Votes :
Senate
- Judicial Proceedings
House
- Health and Government Operations
- Judiciary
- Roll Call Votes (Legislative dates are shown):
Senate
- March 24, 2011: Third Reading Passed (41-6)
- April 7, 2011: Third Reading Passed (38-6)
House
- April 5, 2011: Motion Special Order until 4/11 (Sophocleus) Rejected (41-81)
- April 5, 2011: Floor Amendment (Haddaway) {463421/1 Rejected (42-79)
- April 6, 2011: Floor Amendment (Stifler) {353121/1 Rejected (43-82)
- April 6, 2011: Floor Amendment (Sophocleus) {703724/1 Rejected (49-82)
- April 6, 2011: Third Reading Passed (83-50)