CHAPTER NUMBER: 329 
File Code: Public Safety
- Sponsored By: 
- 
Delegates Conway, Bozman, McClenahan, W. Baker, Guns, Wood,
Edwards, Slade, Malone, Linton, Eckardt, Walkup, O'Donnell, Dewberry,
D. Hughes, V. Mitchell, Rudolph, M. Burns, and Hutchins
- Entitled: 
- 
Volunteer Firefighters and Rescue Squad Personnel - Death Benefits
Requiring that the Board of Trustees of the Maryland State Firemen's
Association pay specified benefits to specified persons if a volunteer
firefighter or individual serving on a volunteer rescue squad dies
under specified circumstances, regardless of the district in which the
decedent died or whether the decedent died in the State, in a
specified adjacent state, or in the District of Columbia; authorizing
under specified circumstances specified relatives of the decedent to
collect death benefits; etc.
House Action
- 2/4
- First Reading Appropriations
-      Hearing 2/17 at 11:00 a.m.
- 3/28
- Favorable with Amendments Report by Appropriations
- 3/27
- Favorable with Amendments Report Adopted
-      Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- 3/28
- Third Reading Passed (131-0)
- 4/9
- House Concur - Senate Amendments
-      Third Reading Passed (130-0)
-      Passed Enrolled
- 5/12
- Signed by the Governor Chapter 329
Senate Action
- 3/30
- First Reading Finance
- 3/31
- Hearing 4/6 at 1:00 p.m.
- 4/9
- Favorable with Amendments Report by Finance
- 4/10
- Favorable with Amendments
-      Committee Amendment Withdrawn
-      Substitute Committee Amendment (Finance) Adopted
-      Favorable with Amendments Report Adopted
-      Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- 4/11
- Third Reading Passed with Amendments (44-0)
- Sponsored by:
- Delegate Norman H. Conway, District 38
- Delegate Wheeler R. Baker, District 36
- Delegate K. Bennett Bozman, District 38
- Delegate Michael W. Burns, District 32
- Delegate Thomas E. Dewberry, District 47B
- Delegate Adelaide C. Eckardt, District 37B
- Delegate George C. Edwards, District 1A
- Delegate Ronald A. Guns, District 36
- Delegate Don B. Hughes, District 37A
- Delegate Thomas E. Hutchins, District 28
- Delegate Samuel C. Linton, District 28
- Delegate James E. Malone, Jr., District 12A
- Delegate Charles A. McClenahan, District 38
- Delegate Van T. Mitchell, District 28
- Delegate Anthony J. O'Donnell, District 29C
- Delegate David D. Rudolph, District 35B
- Delegate John F. Slade, III, District 29B
- Delegate Mary Roe Walkup, District 36
- Delegate John F. Wood, Jr., District 29A
- Bill indexed under the following Subjects:
- DEATH -see also- ADVANCE MEDICAL DIRECTIVES; WRONGFUL DEATH.
- FIRE PROTECTION
- RESCUE SQUADS -see also- AMBULANCES; EMERGENCIES
- VOLUNTEERS -see also- MARYLAND SERVICE CORPS
- Bill affects the following Statute:
- Article - 38A Fires and Investigations
- (
 42A 
)
- Bill Text:
 First Reading (PDF),
Third Reading (PDF), Enrolled (PDF) 
- Fiscal Note:
 Available (PDF) 
- Amendments:
- House 
- Number: 604244/1 (PDF)      Offered on: March 28, 1998      at:
11:08 a.m.     Status: Adopted
- Senate
- Number: 427257/1 (PDF)      Offered on: April 10, 1998      at:
1:20 p.m.      Status: Withdrawn
- Number: 547356/1 (PDF)      Offered on: April 10, 1998      at:
1:20 p.m.      Status: Adopted
 
- Roll Call Votes (Legislative dates are shown):
- House 
- March 28, 1998: Third Reading Passed  (131-0)
- April 9, 1998: Third Reading Passed  (130-0)
- Senate
- April 11, 1998: Third Reading Passed  (44-0)
 
 
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