CHAPTER NUMBER: 479
File Code: Criminal Law - Procedure
Crossfiled with: SENATE BILL 343
- Sponsored By:
-
Delegate Vallario (Task Force to Examine Maryland's Crime
Victims' Rights Laws) and Delegates Barve, Bobo, Bonsack, Bozman,
Brinkley, E. Burns, M. Burns, Cadden, Comeau, Conroy, Conway, Crumlin,
Cryor, Curran, DeCarlo, Dewberry, Donoghue, Doory, Dypski, Edwards,
Faulkner, Finifter, Frush, Fulton, Hammen, Harkins, Harrison, Healey,
Hecht, Heller, Hixson, Howard, Hubbard, B. Hughes, Hutchins, Jacobs,
Kach, Kelly, Klausmeier, Klima, Leopold, Love, McIntosh, McKee,
Minnick, Mohorovic, Morhaim, O'Donnell, Owings, Palumbo, Perry,
Petzold, Pitkin, Preis, Proctor, Rawlings, Redmer, Rudolph, Rzepkowski,
Schade, Snodgrass, Turner, and Workman
- Entitled:
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Victims' Rights - Presence of Victims
Altering the circumstances under which a victim or a representative of
a victim has the right to be present at specified proceedings;
altering the circumstances under which a judge may sequester a victim
or victim's representative; applying provisions of law concerning the
presence of a victim or representative to specified juvenile
delinquency proceedings; defining a specified term; altering specified
definitions; and generally relating to victims' rights in criminal and
juvenile proceedings.
House Action
- 2/5
- First Reading Judiciary
- 2/18
- Hearing 3/3 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
- 3/20
- Third Reading Passed (131-0)
- 4/10
- House Concur - Senate Amendments
- Third Reading Passed (130-0)
- Passed Enrolled
- 5/12
- Signed by the Governor Chapter 479
Senate Action
- 3/23
- First Reading Judicial Proceedings
- 4/10
- Favorable with Amendments Report by Judicial Proceedings
- Favorable with Amendments Report Adopted
- Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- 4/11
- Floor Amendment (Senator Stone) Adopted
- Third Reading Passed with Amendments (46-0)
- Sponsored by:
- Delegate Joseph F. Vallario, Jr., District 27A
- Delegate Kumar P. Barve, District 17
- Delegate Elizabeth Bobo, District 12B
- Delegate Rose Mary Hatem Bonsack, District 34
- Delegate K. Bennett Bozman, District 38
- Delegate David R. Brinkley, District 4A
- Delegate Emmett C. Burns, Jr., District 10
- Delegate Michael W. Burns, District 32
- Delegate Joan Cadden, District 31
- Delegate Michael G. Comeau, District 35A
- Delegate Mary A. Conroy, District 23
- Delegate Norman H. Conway, District 38
- Crime Victims' Rights Laws, T. F. to Examine MD's
- Delegate Michael A. Crumlin, District 25
- Delegate Jean B. Cryor, District 15
- Delegate Gerald J. Curran, District 43
- Delegate Diane DeCarlo, District 6
- Delegate Thomas E. Dewberry, District 47B
- Delegate John P. Donoghue, District 2C
- Delegate Ann Marie Doory, District 43
- Delegate Cornell N. Dypski, District 46
- Delegate George C. Edwards, District 1A
- Delegate Patricia Anne Faulkner, District 14A
- Delegate Michael J. Finifter, District 11
- Delegate Barbara Frush, District 21
- Delegate Tony Edward Fulton, District 40
- Delegate Peter A. Hammen, District 46
- Delegate James M. Harkins, District 35A
- Delegate Hattie N. Harrison, District 45
- Delegate Anne Healey, District 22A
- Delegate Sue C. Hecht, District 3
- Delegate Henry B. Heller, District 19
- Delegate Sheila Ellis Hixson, District 20
- Delegate Carolyn J. B. Howard, District 24
- Delegate James W. Hubbard, District 23
- Delegate Brenda B. Hughes, District 25
- Delegate Thomas E. Hutchins, District 28
- Delegate Nancy Jacobs, District 34
- Delegate A. Wade Kach, District 9A
- Delegate James M. Kelly, District 9B
- Delegate Katherine Klausmeier, District 8
- Delegate Martha S. Klima, District 9A
- Delegate John R. Leopold, District 31
- Delegate Mary Ann E. Love, District 32
- Delegate Maggie L. McIntosh, District 42
- Delegate Robert A. McKee, District 2A
- Delegate Joseph J. Minnick, District 7
- Delegate Jacob J. Mohorovic, Jr., District 7
- Delegate Dan K. Morhaim, District 11
- Delegate Anthony J. O'Donnell, District 29C
- Delegate George W. Owings, III, District 27B
- Delegate Richard A. Palumbo, District 22A
- Delegate Marsha G. Perry, District 33
- Delegate Carol Stoker Petzold, District 19
- Delegate Joan B. Pitkin, District 23
- Delegate Mary Louise Preis, District 34
- Delegate James E. Proctor, Jr., District 27A
- Delegate Howard P. Rawlings, District 40
- Delegate Alfred W. Redmer, Jr., District 8
- Delegate David D. Rudolph, District 35B
- Delegate James E. Rzepkowski, District 32
- Delegate Victoria L. Schade, District 31
- Delegate Louise V. Snodgrass, District 3
- Delegate Frank S. Turner, District 13A
- Delegate Betty Workman, District 1B
- Bill indexed under the following Subjects:
- COURTS -see also- CIRCUIT COURTS; DISTRICT COURTS
- JUDGES
- JUVENILE CAUSES
- TRIALS
- VICTIMS -see also- CRIMINAL INJURIES COMP; DOMESTIC VIOLENCE
- Bill affects the following Statute:
- Article - 27 Crimes and Punishments
- (
773
)
- Bill Text:
First Reading (PDF),
Third Reading (PDF), Enrolled (PDF)
- Fiscal Note:
Available (PDF)
- Amendments:
- House
- Number: 401194/1 (PDF) Offered on: March 17, 1998 at:
10:58 a.m. Status: Adopted
- Senate
- Number: 168256/1 (PDF) Offered on: April 10, 1998 at:
12:44 p.m. Status: Adopted
- Number: 193203/1 (PDF) Offered on: April 11, 1998 at:
2:06 p.m. Status: Adopted
- Roll Call Votes (Legislative dates are shown):
- House
- March 20, 1998: Third Reading Passed (131-0)
- April 10, 1998: Third Reading Passed (130-0)
- Senate
- April 11, 1998: Third Reading Passed with Amendments (46-0)
