File Code: Civil Actions and Procedures
- Sponsored By:
-
Delegates Menes and Vallario
- Entitled:
-
Motor Vehicles - Drunk Driving - Punitive Damages
Providing that a party may recover punitive damages from a person who
causes personal injury or wrongful death while driving or attempting
to drive a motor vehicle while intoxicated or intoxicated per se under
specified circumstances; providing for a standard of proof of clear
and convincing evidence; requiring specified facts to be pleaded with
particularity; etc.
House Action
- 2/5
- First Reading Judiciary
- 2/16
- Hearing 3/18 at 1:00 p.m.
- 3/22
- Unfavorable Report by Judiciary
Senate Action
- No Action
- Sponsored by:
- Delegate Pauline H. Menes, District 21
- Delegate Joseph F. Vallario, Jr., District 27A
- Bill indexed under the following Subjects:
- ACCIDENTS
- CIVIL ACTIONS -see also- SMALL CLAIMS
- DAMAGES
- DRUNK AND DRUGGED DRIVING
- EVIDENCE
- WRONGFUL DEATH
- Bill affects the following Statutes:
- Courts and Judicial Proceedings
- (
10-913 ,
10-913.1
)
- Bill Text:
First Reading (PDF),
Third Reading, Enrolled
- Fiscal Note:
Available (PDF)
- Amendments:
None offered
