File Code: Civil Actions and Procedures
Crossfiled with: HOUSE BILL 459
- Sponsored By:
-
Senator Stone (Task Force to Examine Maryland's Crime Victims'
Rights Laws) and Senators Colburn, Collins, Ferguson, Hollinger,
Kelley, Lawlah, and Sfikas
- Entitled:
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Civil Actions - Punitive Damages - Crime Victims
Allowing in a civil action an award of punitive damages resulting from
conduct that would constitute a violation of specified criminal
offenses under specified circumstances; and providing for the
application of specified provisions of law to a claim for damages
under specified circumstances.
Senate Action
- 1/24
- First Reading Judicial Proceedings
- 2/7
- Hearing 3/1 at 1:00 p.m.
- 3/13
- Unfavorable Report by Judicial Proceedings
House Action
- No Action
- Sponsored by:
- Senator Norman R. Stone, Jr., District 7
- Senator Richard F. Colburn, District 37
- Senator Michael J. Collins, District 6
- Crime Victims' Rights Laws, T. F. to Examine MD's
- Senator Timothy R. Ferguson, District 4
- Senator Paula C. Hollinger, District 11
- Senator Delores G. Kelley, District 10
- Senator Gloria Lawlah, District 26
- Senator Perry Sfikas, District 46
- Bill indexed under the following Subjects:
- CIVIL ACTIONS -see also- SMALL CLAIMS
- DAMAGES
- DRUNK AND DRUGGED DRIVING
- VICTIMS -see also- CRIMINAL INJURIES COMPENSATION
- Bill affects the following Statute:
- Courts and Judicial Proceedings
- (
10-913
)
- Bill Text:
First Reading (PDF),
Third Reading, Enrolled
- Fiscal Note:
Available (PDF)
- Amendments:
None offered