File Code: Criminal Law - Substantive Crimes
Crossfiled with: SENATE BILL 251
- Sponsored By:
-
Delegates Zirkin, Grosfeld, Finifter, and Morhaim
- Entitled:
-
Domestic Abuse Murder
Making it an offense of murder in the first degree to cause the death
under certain circumstances of certain adults or children while a
person commits abuse; and providing that a person who violates the Act
is subject to life imprisonment without the possibility of parole.
House Action
- 2/8
- First Reading Judiciary
- 2/10
- Hearing 2/24 at 1:00 p.m.
- 3/15
- Unfavorable Report by Judiciary
Senate Action
- No Action
- Sponsored by:
- Delegate Robert A. Zirkin, District 11
- Delegate Michael J. Finifter, District 11
- Delegate Sharon M. Grosfeld, District 18
- Delegate Dan K. Morhaim, District 11
- Bill indexed under the following Subjects:
- CHILD ABUSE
- CRIMES AND PUNISHMENTS -see also- PENALTIES; SENTENCES
- DOMESTIC VIOLENCE -see also- CHILD ABUSE
- MURDER
- SENTENCES -see also- DEATH PENALTY
- Bill affects the following Statutes:
- Article - 27 Crimes and Punishments
- (
410A ,
412
)
- Bill Text:
First Reading (PDF),
Third Reading, Enrolled
- Fiscal Note:
Available (PDF)
- Amendments:
None offered
