File Code: Family Law
Crossfiled with: SENATE BILL 161
- Sponsored By:
-
Delegate Taylor and Chairman, Judiciary Committee (Family Violence
Council), and Delegates Dewberry, Hurson, Arnick, Busch, Curran,
Harrison, Hixson, Kopp, Menes, Owings, Rawlings, Hecht, Grosfeld,
Montague, Love, Pendergrass, Conway, Cadden, Stup, Watson, Petzold,
Nathan-Pulliam, Willis, McIntosh, Parker, Rosenberg, B. Hughes,
Branch, Edwards, Donoghue, Franchot, Brinkley, Eckardt, Bobo, Conroy,
Fry, Hubbard, and Pitkin
- Entitled:
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Evidence - Assault Trials - Spousal Privilege - Record of Assertion
Requiring that the clerk of the court make and maintain a record of
the refusal of a spouse of a person on trial for assault, in which the
spouse was a victim, to testify; requiring that the clerk of the court
make and maintain a separate record of a spouse's refusal to testify
when an expungement order is presented; specifying the contents of the
separate record; limiting the availability of the separate record; and
providing that the separate record is not subject to expungement.
House Action
- 1/30
- First Reading Judiciary
- Hearing 2/11 at 1:00 p.m.
- 3/3
- Favorable with Amendments Report by Judiciary
- 3/4
- Favorable with Amendments Report Adopted
- Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- 3/6
- Third Reading Passed (136-0)
- 3/30
- Returned Passed
- 5/22
- Governor vetoed - Cross-filed bill was signed
Senate Action
- 3/7
- First Reading Judicial Proceedings
- 3/31
- Favorable Report by Judicial Proceedings
- 4/1
- Favorable Report Adopted
- Second Reading Passed
- 4/2
- Third Reading Passed (47-0)
- Sponsored by:
- Delegate Casper R. Taylor, Jr., District 1C
- Delegate John S. Arnick, District 7
- Delegate Elizabeth Bobo, District 12B
- Delegate Talmadge Branch, District 45
- Delegate David R. Brinkley, District 4A
- Delegate Michael Erin Busch, District 30
- Delegate Joan Cadden, District 31
- Delegate Mary A. Conroy, District 23
- Delegate Norman H. Conway, District 38
- Delegate Gerald J. Curran, District 43
- Delegate Thomas E. Dewberry, District 47B
- Delegate John P. Donoghue, District 2C
- Delegate Adelaide C. Eckardt, District 37B
- Delegate George C. Edwards, District 1A
- Delegate Peter Franchot, District 20
- Delegate Donald C. Fry, District 35A
- Delegate Sharon M. Grosfeld, District 18
- Delegate Hattie N. Harrison, District 45
- Delegate Sue C. Hecht, District 3
- Delegate Sheila Ellis Hixson, District 20
- Delegate James W. Hubbard, District 23
- Delegate Brenda B. Hughes, District 25
- Delegate John Adams Hurson, District 18
- Chairman, Judiciary Comm.
- Delegate Nancy K. Kopp, District 16
- Delegate Mary Ann E. Love, District 32
- Delegate Maggie L. McIntosh, District 42
- Delegate Pauline H. Menes, District 21
- Delegate Kenneth C. Montague, Jr., District 43
- Delegate Shirley Nathan-Pulliam, District 10
- Delegate George W. Owings, III, District 27B
- Delegate Joan N. Parker, District 10
- Delegate Shane E. Pendergrass, District 13A
- Delegate Carol Stoker Petzold, District 19
- Delegate Joan B. Pitkin, District 23
- Delegate Howard P. Rawlings, District 40
- Delegate Samuel I. Rosenberg, District 42
- Delegate J. Anita Stup, District 3
- Delegate Carmena F. Watson, District 44
- Delegate Ellen L. Willis, District 5
- Bill indexed under the following Subjects:
- ASSAULT
- CLERKS OF COURT
- DOMESTIC VIOLENCE
- RECORDS -see also- RCDNGS; LAND RCDS; VITAL RCDS; CRIM BKGD.
- TRIALS
- WITNESSES
- Bill affects the following Statute:
- Courts and Judicial Proceedings
- (
9-106
)
- Bill Text:
- First Reading (PDF),
Third Reading (PDF), Enrolled
- Fiscal Note:
Available (PDF)
Amendments:
- House
- Number: 121788/1 (PDF) Offered on: MARCH 4, 1997 at: 11:49
Status: Adopted
