File Code: Criminal Law - Procedure
Prior Year Introduction As: HB 1249/98 - JUD
- Sponsored By:
-
Delegates Boschert, Greenip, Rzepkowski, Leopold, Baldwin,
Burns, Guns, K. Kelly, Owings, W. Baker, and Amedori
- Entitled:
-
Homicide - Use of Deadly Force in Residence - Defense
Establishing that a person who uses deadly force or force likely to
cause death within the person's residence is presumed to have held a
reasonable fear of imminent peril of death or serious physical injury
to the person or a member of the person's family or household, if the
force is used against another who unlawfully and forcibly enters or
has entered the person's residence; and providing that a person is not
civilly liable for any act or omission in protecting or attempting to
protect the person or a member of the person's family or household.
House Action
- 2/11
- First Reading Judiciary
- 2/16
- Hearing 3/9 at 1:00 p.m.
- 3/15
- Unfavorable Report by Judiciary
Senate Action
- No Action
- Sponsored by:
- Delegate David Boschert, District 33
- Delegate Carmen Amedori, District 5
- Delegate Wheeler R. Baker, District 36
- Delegate Robert C. Baldwin, District 33
- Delegate Emmett C. Burns, Jr., District 10
- Delegate Janet Greenip, District 33
- Delegate Ronald A. Guns, District 36
- Delegate Kevin Kelly, District 1B
- Delegate John R. Leopold, District 31
- Delegate George W. Owings, III, District 27B
- Delegate James E. Rzepkowski, District 32
- Bill indexed under the following Subjects:
- CIVIL ACTIONS -see also- SMALL CLAIMS
- CRIMES AND PUNISHMENTS -see also- PENALTIES; SENTENCES
- LIABILITY -see also- GOOD SAMARITAN
- MURDER
- SELF DEFENSE
- Bill affects the following Statute:
- Article - 27 Crimes and Punishments
- (
415A
)
- Bill Text:
First Reading (PDF),
Third Reading, Enrolled
- Fiscal Note:
Available (PDF)
- Amendments:
None offered
