CHAPTER NUMBER: 452
File Code: Civil Actions and Procedures
Prior Year Introduction As: HB 1347/97 - JUD
Crossfiled with: SENATE BILL 213
- Sponsored By:
-
Delegates Doory, Montague, Preis, Harkins, Jacobs, Love, M.
Burns, Krysiak, and Conroy
- Entitled:
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Certificates of Merit - Licensed Professionals
Requiring a claimant who originally files a specified claim in a
circuit court against specified licensed professionals to file a
certificate of a qualified expert; requiring a certificate to contain
a statement that the defendant failed to meet an applicable standard
of professional care; requiring the certificate to be filed within 90
days after the claim is filed and to be served on specified persons;
authorizing the court to grant a waiver or modification or to extend
the filing deadline under specified circumstances; etc.
House Action
- 1/22
- First Reading Judiciary
- 2/18
- Hearing 3/11 at 1:00 p.m.
- 3/16
- Favorable with Amendments Report by Judiciary
- 3/17
- Favorable with Amendments Report Adopted
- Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- 3/19
- Third Reading Passed (135-1)
- 4/4
- Return Passed
- 5/12
- Signed by the Governor Chapter 452
Senate Action
- 3/20
- First Reading Judicial Proceedings
- 4/6
- Favorable Report by Judicial Proceedings
- 4/7
- Favorable Report Adopted
- Second Reading Passed
- 4/8
- Third Reading Passed (47-0)
- Sponsored by:
- Delegate Ann Marie Doory, District 43
- Delegate Michael W. Burns, District 32
- Delegate Mary A. Conroy, District 23
- Delegate James M. Harkins, District 35A
- Delegate Nancy Jacobs, District 34
- Delegate Carolyn J. Krysiak, District 46
- Delegate Mary Ann E. Love, District 32
- Delegate Kenneth C. Montague, Jr., District 43
- Delegate Mary Louise Preis, District 34
- Bill indexed under the following Subjects:
- ARCHITECTS
- CIRCUIT COURTS
- CIVIL ACTIONS -see also- SMALL CLAIMS
- COURTS -see also- CIRCUIT COURTS; DISTRICT COURTS
- ENGINEERS
- INTERIOR DESIGNERS
- LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTS
- LICENSES -see also- ALC. BEVERAGES LICENSES; DRIVERS' LIC
- NEGLIGENCE
- SURVEYORS
- WITNESSES
- Bill affects the following Statutes:
- Courts and Judicial Proceedings
- (
3-2C-01 ,
3-2C-02
)
- Bill Text:
First Reading (PDF),
Third Reading (PDF), Enrolled
- Fiscal Note:
Available (PDF)
- Amendments:
- House
- Number: 171196/1 (PDF) Offered on: March 17, 1998 at:
10:56 a.m. Status: Adopted
- Roll Call Votes (Legislative dates are shown):
- House
- March 19, 1998: Third Reading Passed (135-1)
- Senate
- April 8, 1998: Third Reading Passed (47-0)
