File Code: Criminal Law - Substantive Crimes
Crossfiled with: SENATE BILL 347
- Sponsored By:
-
Delegates Genn and Doory (Committee to Revise Article 27)
- Entitled:
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Crimes - Involuntary Manslaughter and Voluntary Manslaughter -
Penalties
Increasing the maximum penalty for involuntary manslaughter to a
$5,000 fine or 10 years' imprisonment and for voluntary manslaughter
to a $10,000 fine or 15 years' imprisonment; requiring, if there is
sufficient evidence, in a case tried before a jury, for a judge to
enter a verdict of guilty of involuntary manslaughter if the guilty
verdict does not specify involuntary manslaughter or voluntary
manslaughter and, in a nonjury case, for the judge to specify guilty
of involuntary manslaughter or voluntary manslaughter; etc.
House Action
- 2/9
- First Reading Judiciary
- 2/11
- Hearing 2/24 at 1:00 p.m.
- 3/16
- Unfavorable Report by Judiciary
Senate Action
- No Action
- Sponsored by:
- Delegate Gilbert J. Genn, District 16
- Delegate Ann Marie Doory, District 43
- Comm. to Revise Article 27
- Bill indexed under the following Subjects:
- CRIMES AND PUNISHMENTS -see also- PENALTIES; SENTENCES
- FINES
- JUDGES
- MANSLAUGHTER
- PENALTIES
- Bill affects the following Statutes:
- Article - 27 Crimes and Punishments
- (
387 ,
387
)
- Bill Text:
First Reading (PDF),
Third Reading, Enrolled
- Fiscal Note:
Available (PDF)
- Amendments:
None offered
