HOUSE BILL 501

Sponsored By:

Delegate Vallario (Task Force to Examine Maryland's Crime Victims' Rights Laws) and Delegates Barve, Bobo, Bonsack, Brinkley, E. Burns, M. Burns, Cadden, Comeau, Conroy, Conway, Crumlin, Cryor, Curran, DeCarlo, Dewberry, Donoghue, Doory, Dypski, Edwards, Exum, Faulkner, Finifter, Frush, Fulton, Hammen, Harkins, Harrison, Healey, Hecht, Heller, Hixson, Howard, Hubbard, B. Hughes, Hutchins, Jacobs, Kach, Kelly, Klausmeier, Klima, Leopold, Linton, Love, McIntosh, McKee, Menes, Minnick, Mohorovic, Morhaim, O'Donnell, Owings, Palumbo, Perry, Petzold, Pitkin, Preis, Proctor, Rawlings, Redmer, Rudolph, Rzepkowski, Schade, Snodgrass, and Workman

Entitled:

Criminal Sentencing - Judicial Review Panels - Victim Notification

Synopsis:

Modifying the procedures a judicial review panel uses for reviewing a defendant's sentence; providing that the panel need not hold a hearing under certain circumstances; providing that a sentence of life imprisonment without the possibility of parole may not be increased to death by a judicial review panel; requiring specified persons to be notified before the panel alters a sentence; allowing a victim or a representative to attend the proceedings and address the panel under specified circumstances; etc.

History by Legislative Date

House Action

2/5

First Reading Judiciary

2/18

Hearing 3/3 at 1:00 p.m.

3/9

Favorable Report by Judiciary

3/10

Favorable Report Adopted

Second Reading Passed

3/13

Third Reading Passed (135-0)

4/4

Return Passed

5/21

Governor vetoed - Cross-filed bill was signed

Senate Action

3/16

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 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 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 Nathaniel Exum, District 24

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 Samuel C. Linton, District 28

Delegate Mary Ann E. Love, District 32

Delegate Maggie L. McIntosh, District 42

Delegate Robert A. McKee, District 2A

Delegate Pauline H. Menes, District 21

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 Betty Workman, District 1B

Bill indexed under the following Subjects:

DEATH PENALTY

HEARINGS

JUDICIAL REVIEW

NOTICES

SENTENCES -see also- DEATH PENALTY

VICTIMS -see also- CRIMINAL INJURIES COMP; DOMESTIC VIOLENCE

Bill affects the following Statutes:

Article - 27 Crimes and Punishments

( 645JC , 645JE )

Documents:

Bill Text: First Reading (PDF), Third Reading (PDF), Enrolled

Fiscal Note: Available (PDF)

Amendments: None offered

Roll Call Votes (Legislative dates are shown):

House

March 13, 1998: Third Reading Passed (135-0)

Senate

April 8, 1998: Third Reading Passed (47-0)