CHAPTER NUMBER: 668
File Code: Criminal Law - Substantive Crimes
Prior Year Introduction As: HB 778/97 - JUD
Crossfiled with: SENATE BILL 222
- Sponsored By:
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Delegates Rosenberg, Barve, Frank, Kopp, Turner, Getty, T.
Murphy, Petzold, and D. Davis
- Entitled:
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Crimes - Electronic Mail Misuse - Penalties
Prohibiting a person from using electronic mail for a communication
made with intent to harass one or more persons or by sending lewd,
lascivious, or obscene material; providing for a specified exception;
providing for a penalty of not more than $500 or imprisonment for not
more than 1 year or both for violations of the Act; and defining
electronic mail.
House Action
- 1/19
- First Reading Judiciary
- 1/21
- Hearing 2/3 at 10:30 a.m.
- 3/23
- Favorable with Amendments Report by Judiciary
- Favorable with Amendments Report Adopted
- Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- 3/25
- Third Reading Passed (130-6)
- 4/4
- House Refuses to Concur - Senate Amendments
- House Requests Senate Recede
- Conference Committee Appointed ...
- Genn, Dembrow, Jacobs
- 4/11
- Conference Committee Report Adopted
- Third Reading Passed (116-2)
- 4/13
- Passed Enrolled
- 5/21
- Signed by the Governor Chapter 668
Senate Action
- 3/26
- First Reading Judicial Proceedings
- 4/6
- Favorable with Amendments Report by Judicial Proceedings
- 4/7
- Favorable with Amendments Report Adopted
- Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- 4/8
- Third Reading Passed with Amendments (47-0)
- 4/10
- Senate Refuses to Recede
- Conference Committee Appointed ...
- Ferguson, Middlebrooks, Forehand
- 4/13
- Conference Committee Report Adopted
- Third Reading Passed (47-0)
- Sponsored by:
- Delegate Samuel I. Rosenberg, District 42
- Delegate Kumar P. Barve, District 17
- Delegate Dereck Davis, District 25
- Delegate Robert L. Frank, District 11
- Delegate Joseph M. Getty, District 5
- Delegate Nancy K. Kopp, District 16
- Delegate Timothy D. Murphy, District 47A
- Delegate Carol Stoker Petzold, District 19
- Delegate Frank S. Turner, District 13A
- Bill indexed under the following Subjects:
- COMPUTERS
- CRIMES AND PUNISHMENTS -see also- PENALTIES; SENTENCES
- ELECTRONIC TRANSMISSION
- HARASSMENT
- OBSCENITY -see also- NUDITY & SEXUAL DISPLAYS; PORNOGRAPHY
- PENALTIES
- TELECOMMUNICATIONS -see also- TELEPHONES
- Bill affects the following Statute:
- Article - 27 Crimes and Punishments
- (
555C
)
- Bill Text:
First Reading (PDF),
Third Reading (PDF), Enrolled (PDF)
- Fiscal Note:
Available (PDF)
- Amendments:
- House
- Number: 631897/1 (PDF) Offered on: March 23, 1998 at:
5:01 p.m. Status: Adopted
- Senate
- Number: 798355/1 (PDF) Offered on: April 7, 1998 at:
10:52 a.m. Status: Adopted
- Conference Committee Documents:
- Report Number: 863607/1 (PDF) Offered on: April 13, 1998 at:
11:25 p.m. Status: Adopted
- Amendment Number: 343605/1 (PDF) Offered on: April 13, 1998 at:
11:25 p.m. Status: Incomplete
- Amendment Number: 983403/1 (PDF) Offered on: April 13, 1998 at:
11:25 p.m. Status: Incomplete
- Roll Call Votes (Legislative dates are shown):
- House
- March 25, 1998: Third Reading Passed (130-6)
- April 11, 1998: Third Reading Passed (116-2)
- Senate
- April 8, 1998: Third Reading Passed (47-0)
- April 13, 1998: Third Reading Passed (47-0)
