CHAPTER NUMBER: 349
File Code: Family Law
Prior Year Introduction As: HB 677/97 - JUD
Crossfiled with: HOUSE BILL 9
- Sponsored By:
-
Senators Kelley, Forehand, Hoffman, Pinsky, Roesser, Ruben,
Trotter, Conway, Jimeno, Middleton, Colburn, Teitelbaum, Middlebrooks,
Currie, Frosh, Hollinger, Lawlah, Van Hollen, and Hughes
- Entitled:
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Family Law - Grounds for Absolute Divorce - Domestic Violence
Adding cruelty of treatment and excessively vicious conduct, if there
is not reasonable expectation of reconciliation, as grounds for an
absolute divorce.
Senate Action
- 1/28
- First Reading Judicial Proceedings
- 2/11
- Hearing 2/25 at 1:00 p.m.
- 3/23
- Favorable with Amendments Report by Judicial Proceedings
- 3/24
- Favorable with Amendments Report Adopted
- Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- 3/26
- Third Reading Passed (44-2)
- 4/12
- Senate Refuses to Concur - House Amendments
- Senate Requests House Recede
- Conference Committee Appointed ...
- Green, Stone, Middlebrooks
- 4/13
- Conference Committee Report Adopted
- Third Reading Passed (44-2)
- 4/11
- Passed Enrolled
- 5/12
- Signed by the Governor Chapter 349
House Action
- 3/26
- First Reading Judiciary
- Hearing 4/9 at 1:00 p.m.
- 4/10
- Favorable with Amendments Report by Judiciary
- 4/5
- Favorable with Amendments Report Adopted
- Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- 4/7
- Third Reading Passed with Amendments (132-3)
- 4/9
- House Refuses to Recede
- Conference Committee Appointed ...
- Delegates Grosfeld, Menes, and Hutchins
- 4/11
- Conference Committee Report Adopted
- Third Reading Passed (127-3)
- Sponsored by:
- Senator Delores G. Kelley, District 10
- Senator Richard F. Colburn, District 37
- Senator Joan Carter Conway, District 43
- Senator Ulysses Currie, District 25
- Senator Jennie M. Forehand, District 17
- Senator Brian E. Frosh, District 16
- Senator Barbara A. Hoffman, District 42
- Senator Paula Colodny Hollinger, District 11
- Senator Ralph M. Hughes, District 40
- Senator Philip C. Jimeno, District 31
- Senator Gloria Gary Lawlah, District 26
- Senator C. Edward Middlebrooks, District 32
- Senator Thomas McLain Middleton, District 28
- Senator Paul G. Pinsky, District 22
- Senator Jean W. Roesser, District 15
- Senator Ida G. Ruben, District 20
- Senator Leonard H. Teitelbaum, District 19
- Senator Decatur W. Trotter, District 24
- Senator Christopher Van Hollen, Jr., District 18
- Bill indexed under the following Subjects:
- COURTS -see also- CIRCUIT COURTS; DISTRICT COURTS
- DIVORCE -see also- ANNULMENT
- DOMESTIC VIOLENCE -see also- CHILD ABUSE
- FAMILY LAW -see also- ADOPTION; DIVORCE; DOMESTIC VIOLENCE
- FEES -see also- DEVELOPMENT FEES AND TAXES
- Bill affects the following Statute:
- Family Law
- (
7-103
)
- Bill Text:
First Reading (PDF),
Third Reading (PDF), Enrolled (PDF)
- Fiscal Note:
Available (PDF)
- Amendments:
- Senate
- Number: 388057/1 (PDF) Offered on: March 24, 1998 at:
12:47 p.m. Status: Adopted
- House
- Number: 081595/1 (PDF) Offered on: April 10, 1998 at:
10:26 a.m. Status: Adopted
- Conference Committee Documents:
- Report Number: 193209/1 (PDF) Offered on: April 13, 1998 at:
11:27 p.m. Status: Adopted
- Amendment Number: 153306/1 (PDF) Offered on: April 13, 1998 at:
11:27 p.m. Status: Incomplete
- Roll Call Votes (Legislative dates are shown):
- Senate
- March 26, 1998: Third Reading Passed (44-2)
- April 13, 1998: Third Reading Passed (44-2)
- House
- April 7, 1998: Third Reading Passed (132-3)
- April 11, 1998: Third Reading Passed (127-3)
