File Code: Criminal Law - Substantive Crimes
- Sponsored By:
-
Delegates Poole, Hecht, Harkins, and Grosfeld
- Entitled:
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Domestic Violence - First Degree Murder - Civil Protective Orders
Providing that murder that is committed by a person while the person
was subject to a temporary ex parte or a protective order issued in a
domestic violence case against another who had been granted relief in
the order shall be murder in the first degree; and adding as an
aggravating circumstance in sentencing proceedings for the first
degree murder that the victim had been granted relief under and the
defendant was subject to a temporary ex parte or a protective order
issued in a domestic violence case.
House Action
- 1/29
- First Reading Judiciary
- Hearing 2/12 at 1:00 p.m.
- 3/3
- Unfavorable Report by Judiciary
Senate Action
- No Action
- Sponsored by:
- Delegate D. Bruce Poole, District 2B
- Delegate Sharon M. Grosfeld, District 18
- Delegate James M. Harkins, District 35A
- Delegate Sue C. Hecht, District 3
- Bill indexed under the following Subjects:
- CRIMES AND PUNISHMENTS -see also- PENALTIES; SENTENCES
- DOMESTIC VIOLENCE
- MURDER
- SENTENCES -see also- DEATH PENALTY
- Bill affects the following Statutes:
- Article - 27 Crimes and Punishments
- (
410A ,
413
)
- Bill Text:
- First Reading (PDF),
Third Reading, Enrolled
- Fiscal Note:
Available (PDF)