CHAPTER NUMBER: 311
File Code: Criminal Law - Procedure
Crossfiled with: HOUSE BILL 768
- Sponsored By:
-
Senator Stone (Task Force to Examine Maryland's Crime Victims'
Rights Laws) and Senators
Miller, Baker, Colburn, Ferguson, Forehand, Green, Haines, Hughes,
Jimeno, Kelley, and Middlebrooks
- Entitled:
-
Victims' Rights Act of 1997
Expanding and clarifying the right of victims to participate in
sentencing and parole hearings and to be notified of various
proceedings concerning the defendant; expanding certain victims'
rights laws to include juvenile proceedings and victims who file a
notification request form; establishing that specified evidence
relating to a victim's prior sexual conduct is not admissible in a
prosecution for attempted rape or attempted sexual offense in the
first or second degree; etc.
Senate Action
- 1/15
- First Reading Judicial Proceedings
- 1/22
- Hearing 2/5 at 1:00 p.m.
- 2/11
- Favorable with Amendments Report by Judicial Proceedings
- 2/12
- Favorable with Amendments
- Laid Over (Senator Stone) Adopted
- 2/13
- Favorable with Amendments Report Adopted
- Floor Amendment (Senator Stone) Adopted
- Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- 2/17
- Third Reading Passed (46-0)
- 4/4
- Senate Refuses to Concur - House Amendments
- Senate Requests House Recede
- Conference Committee Appointed ...
- Senators Stone, Jimeno, Middlebrooks
- 4/6
- Conference Committee Report Adopted
- Third Reading Passed (46-0)
- 4/5
- Passed Enrolled
- 5/8
- Signed by the Governor Chapter 311
House Action
- 2/18
- First Reading Judiciary
- 3/18
- Hearing 3/26 at 1:00 p.m.
- 3/27
- Favorable with Amendments Report by Judiciary
- 3/25
- Favorable with Amendments Report Adopted
- Floor Amendment (Delegate Arnick) Rejected (49-56)
- Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- 3/27
- Floor Amendment (Delegate Kagan) Rejected
- Third Reading Passed with Amendments (133-1)
- 3/31
- House Refuses to Recede
- Conference Committee Appointed ...
- Delegates Genn, E. Burns, Harkins
- 4/5
- Conference Committee Report Adopted
- Third Reading Passed (126-1)
- Sponsored by:
- Senator Norman R. Stone, Jr., District 7
- Senator Walter M. Baker, District 36
- Senator Richard F. Colburn, District 37
- Crime Victims' Rights Laws, T. F. to Examine Maryl
- Senator Timothy R. Ferguson, District 4
- Senator Jennie M. Forehand, District 17
- Senator Leo E. Green, District 23
- Senator Larry E. Haines, District 5
- Senator Ralph M. Hughes, District 40
- Senator Philip C. Jimeno, District 31
- Senator Delores G. Kelley, District 10
- Senator C. Edward Middlebrooks, District 32
- Senator Thomas V. Mike Miller, Jr., District 27
- Bill indexed under the following Subjects:
- AIDS
- APPEALS -see also- JUDICIAL REVIEW
- ATTORNEYS -see also- LEGAL AID; STATE'S ATTORNEYS
- COMMITTEES AND COMMISSIONS -see also- POLITICAL COMMITTEES
- COURTS -see also- CIRCUIT COURTS; DISTRICT COURTS
- CRIMINAL INJURIES COMPENSATION
- DEATH PENALTY
- DISTRICT COURTS
- DOMESTIC VIOLENCE
- EVIDENCE
- HEARINGS
- JURIES -see also- GRAND JURIES
- JUVENILE CAUSES
- JUVENILE JUSTICE, DEPARTMENT OF
- LAW ENFORCEMENT -see also- STATE POLICE, DEPT. OF
- MENTAL HEALTH
- MINORS -see also- AGE OF MAJORITY; JUVENILE CAUSES; YOUTH
- NOTICES
- PAROLE AND PROBATION
- PATUXENT INSTITUTION
- PRETRIAL DETENTION OR RELEASE
- PRISONERS
- PRIVACY
- PUBLIC SAFETY AND CORRECTIONAL SERVICES, DEPARTMENT OF
- REPORTS -see also- RECORDS
- RESTITUTION
- SENTENCES -see also- DEATH PENALTY
- SEXUAL OFFENSES
- STATE'S ATTORNEYS
- SUBPOENAS
- TRIALS
- VICTIMS -see also- CRIMINAL INJURIES COMP; DOMESTIC VIOLENCE
- WITNESSES
- Bill affects the following Statutes:
- Article - 19 Comptroller
- (
43
)
- Courts and Judicial Proceedings
- (
3-828
)
- Article - 27 Crimes and Punishments
- (
461A ,
616 1/2 ,
700G ,
760 ,
762 ,
763 ,
768 ,
769 ,
770 ,
771 ,
772 ,
774 ,
775 ,
776 ,
780 ,
780A ,
781 ,
783A ,
784 ,
786 ,
787 ,
788 ,
789 ,
791 ,
792 ,
799 ,
800 ,
805A ,
807 ,
808 ,
809 ,
810 ,
811 ,
812 ,
815 ,
825 ,
837 ,
842 ,
854 ,
855 ,
857
)
- Article - 41 Governor - Executive and Administrative Departments
- (
4-504 ,
4-504 ,
4-506 ,
4-511 ,
4-511A ,
4-612
)
- Health - General
- (
12-106 ,
12-122
)
- Article - 31B Patuxent Institution
- (
10 ,
11
)
- State Finance and Procurement
- (
3-305
)
- Bill Text:
- First Reading (PDF),
Third Reading (PDF), Enrolled (PDF)
- Fiscal Note:
Available (PDF)
Amendments:
- Senate
- Number: 052997/1 (PDF) Offered on: FEBRUARY 13, 1997 at: 10:22
Status: Adopted
- Number: 898044/1 (PDF) Offered on: FEBRUARY 13, 1997 at: 10:22
Status: Adopted
- House
- Number: 342599/1 (PDF) Offered on: MARCH 31, 1997 at: 15:49
Status: Rejected
- Number: 562199/1 (PDF) Offered on: MARCH 27, 1997 at: 10:40
Status: Rejected
- Number: 661287/1 (PDF) Offered on: MARCH 27, 1997 at: 10:39
Status: Adopted
Conference Committee Documents:
- Report Number: 272390/1 (PDF) Offered on: APRIL 7, 1997 at: 18:59
Status: Adopted
- Amendment Number: 372290/1 (PDF) Offered on: APRIL 7, 1997 at: 18:59
Status: Adopted
