Administrative Office Of The Courts
Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Civil Actions - Child Sexual Abuse [HB-1378]
[Children and Youth ]
[Crime ]
[Criminal Justice ]
[Human Services ]
[Public Safety ]
Altering certain provisions relating to the award of noneconomic damages to a claimant in an action for child sexual abuse; altering certain provisions relating to the liability of the State under the Maryland Tort Claims Act and of a local government under the Local Government Tort Claims Act for certain claims of child sexual abuse; and requiring the Maryland Judiciary to report to the General Assembly by January 31, 2027, and each year thereafter, on the amount of each award and a summary of the sexual abuse claims related to the award.
Sponsored by: Rep. C.T. Wilson
Approved By The Governor - Chapter 104 on 04/22/2025
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Gettr Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Juveniles - Truancy Reduction Pilot Programs - Report [HB-1442]
[Education ]
[Children and Youth ]
[Crime ]
[Criminal Justice ]
[Public Safety ]
Requiring the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Maryland to report annually by November 1 to the General Assembly on the Truancy Reduction Pilot Program; and requiring the report to include the number of Truancy Reduction Pilot Programs established in State, the number of participants in each pilot program; information on the outcomes of the participants in each program, and recommendations to improve the function of the current program.
Sponsored by: Rep. Mark Edelson
Approved By The Governor - Chapter 577 on 05/13/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Courts - Parental Accommodations [HB-1440]
[Family-Related Legislation ]
[Healthcare ]
[Children and Youth ]
[Public Health ]
Requiring circuit courthouses in the State, constructed or renovated on or after October 1, 2025, to maintain on its premises a private lactation room to be used by certain individuals; providing that breast-feeding mothers and certain individuals caring for children under 3 years old may be excused from jury service; and requiring the Maryland Judiciary to collect certain information on jury service excusals and report annually to the Maryland General Assembly beginning by December 31, 2025.
Sponsored by: Rep. Frank M Conaway
Approved By The Governor - Chapter 137 on 04/22/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Courts - Artificial Intelligence Evidence Clinic Pilot Program - Establishment [HB-966]
[Technology and Innovation ]
[Artificial Intelligence ]
[Cybersecurity ]
[Law Enforcement ]
[Science ]
[Funding ]
[Grants ]
[Education ]
[Crime ]
[Criminal Justice ]
Establishing an Artificial Intelligence Evidence Clinic Pilot Program within the Administrative Office of the Courts to provide expertise in artificial intelligence to the circuit courts and the District Court in the form of expert testimony on the authenticity of electronic evidence that a court determines may have been created or altered using artificial intelligence; requiring the Administrative Office of the Courts to develop a grant application for the Program and award grants to eligible institutions of higher education; etc.
Sponsored by: Rep. Jon S Cardin
Third Reading Passed (129-9) on 04/03/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Courts - Artificial Intelligence Evidence Clinic Pilot Program - Establishment [SB-655]
[Artificial Intelligence ]
[Technology and Innovation ]
[Cybersecurity ]
[Funding ]
[Grants ]
[Education ]
[Budget and Spending ]
[Law Enforcement ]
[Criminal Justice ]
Establishing an Artificial Intelligence Evidence Clinic Pilot Program within the Administrative Office of the Courts to provide expertise in artificial intelligence to the circuit courts and the District Court in the form of expert testimony on certain types of evidence before the courts; requiring the Office to develop a grant application for the Program and award grants to eligible higher education institutions; and authorizing the Governor for fiscal years 2027 and 2028 to include $250,000 in the annual budget bill for the Program.
Sponsored by: Sen. Katie Fry Hester
Vetoed By The Governor (policy) on 05/16/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Real Property - Transfer-on-Death Deed - Establishment [HB-625]
[Real Estate ]
[Property Tax ]
Altering the Maryland Uniform Disclaimer of Property Interests Act to provide for the disclaimer of nonprobate transfers at death; providing for the creation, revocation, recordation, and effects of a transfer-on-death deed for real property; requiring the Administrative Office of the Courts to develop an informational sheet regarding transfer-on-death deeds; providing example forms for the creation and revocation of a transfer-on-death deed; etc.
Sponsored by: Rep. Terri Hill
Hearing 2/12 At 1:00 P.m. (judiciary) on 01/27/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Criminal Procedure - Automated Expungement [HB-545]
[Cannabis ]
[Crime ]
[Criminal Justice ]
Repealing a certain provision of law requiring the Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services to expunge certain cases involving charges of possession of cannabis on or before a certain date; and establishing procedures for the automated expungement of certain cases by the Department and the Judiciary.
Sponsored by: Rep. David H. Moon
Hearing 3/04 At 1:00 P.m. on 02/10/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Criminal Procedure - Automated Expungement [SB-398]
[Cannabis ]
[Crime ]
[Criminal Justice ]
Repealing a certain provision of law requiring the Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services to expunge certain cases involving charges of possession of cannabis on or before a certain date; and establishing procedures for the automated expungement of certain cases by the Department and the Judiciary.
Sponsored by: Sen. Mike McKay
Hearing 2/05 At 2:00 P.m. on 01/24/2025
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Arizona Fifty-seventh Legislature - First Regular Session (2025)
Appropriations; criminal justice; salary increases [SB-1061]
[Budget and Spending ]
[Crime ]
[Criminal Justice ]
[Funding ]
[Public Safety ]
Appropriations; criminal justice; salary increases
Sponsored by: Sen. Kevin Payne
House Approp Committee Action: Do Pass Amended/strike-everything, Voting: (10-7-1-0-0-0) on 03/31/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Task Force to Study Fiduciary Adjudication in Maryland [HB-315]
[Law Enforcement ]
Establishing the Task Force to Study Fiduciary Adjudication in Maryland to examine and analyze the efficiency, uniformity, and quality of fiduciary adjudication in Maryland and make recommendations; requiring the orphans' courts, circuit courts, registers of wills, and Administrative Office of the Courts to comply with certain requests of the Task Force; and requiring the Task Force to report its findings and make recommendations on or before January 1, 2026.
Sponsored by: Rep. Frank M Conaway
Approved By The Governor - Chapter 220 on 04/22/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Task Force to Study Fiduciary Adjudication in Maryland [SB-22]
[Law Enforcement ]
[Ethics ]
Establishing the Task Force to Study Fiduciary Adjudication in Maryland to examine and analyze the efficiency, uniformity, and quality of fiduciary adjudication in Maryland and make recommendations; requiring the orphans' courts, circuit courts, registers of wills, and Administrative Office of the Courts to comply with certain requests of the Task Force; and requiring the Task Force to report its findings and make recommendations on or before January 1, 2026.
Sponsored by: Sen. Chris West
Referred Judiciary on 02/14/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Courts - Maryland Judicial Public Text Messaging System - Report [HB-240]
[Technology and Innovation ]
[Cybersecurity ]
[Data Privacy ]
[Law Enforcement ]
[Public Safety ]
Requiring the Administrative Office of the Courts, beginning December 1, 2025, and each December 1 thereafter, to provide a report to the General Assembly containing certain information on the Maryland Judicial Public Text Messaging System; and requiring the report to include a review of any future plans for development, expansion, and implementation of the System.
Sponsored by: Rep. Caylin Allen Young
Hearing 1/22 At 1:00 P.m. on 01/10/2025
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Maryland 2024 Regular Session
Family Law - Paternity - Surname (Maryland Paternal Naming Rights Act) [HB-1298]
[Family-Related Legislation ]
[Children and Youth ]
Authorizing the father of a child to file a petition to add the father's surname to the child's name under certain circumstances and establishing related court procedures; and requiring the Maryland Judiciary to develop and update, as appropriate, a training program for judges presiding over petitions filed under the Act.
Sponsored by: Rep. Caylin Allen Young
Withdrawn By Sponsor on 03/12/2024
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Maryland 2024 Regular Session
Public Safety – Extreme Risk Protective Orders – Review of Court Records [SB-905]
[Public Safety ]
[Crime ]
[Law Enforcement ]
[Criminal Justice ]
[Data Privacy ]
[Science ]
[Education ]
Authorizing researchers affiliated with institutions of higher education who are conducting research to review a court record related to a petition for an extreme risk protective order; requiring the Maryland Judiciary to require an institution of higher education that has researchers reviewing court records to enter into an agreement providing for the storage and handling of the records; authorizing the Judiciary to institute an injunction or other remedy for a violation of the agreement and to prevent disclosure of certain records; etc.
Sponsored by: Sen. Clarence K. Lam
Approved By The Governor - Chapter 929 on 05/16/2024
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Maryland 2024 Regular Session
Courts - Maryland Judicial Public Text Messaging System - Report [HB-978]
[Technology and Innovation ]
[Cybersecurity ]
[Data Privacy ]
[Law Enforcement ]
[Public Safety ]
[Criminal Justice ]
Requiring the Administrative Office of the Courts, beginning December 1, 2024, and each December 1 thereafter, to provide a report to the General Assembly containing certain information on the Maryland Judicial Public Text Messaging System; and requiring the report to include a review of any future plans for development, expansion, and implementation of the System.
Sponsored by: Rep. Frank M Conaway
Referred Judicial Proceedings on 03/18/2024
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Maryland 2024 Regular Session
Courts and Judicial Proceedings - Jury Examination and Workgroup to Study the Voir Dire Process [SB-827]
[Law Enforcement ]
[Criminal Justice ]
Specifying the purpose of jury examination in any State court is to identify and remove prospective jurors who are unable to serve fairly and impartially and to allow the parties to obtain information that may provide guidance for the use of peremptory challenges and challenges for cause; establishing the Workgroup to Study the Voir Dire Process; and requiring the Workgroup to report its findings and recommendations to the Governor and the General Assembly on or before June 30, 2025.
Sponsored by: Sen. William C. Smith
Hearing 3/21 At 1:00 P.m. on 03/19/2024
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Maryland 2024 Regular Session
Revenge Porn - Civil Action and Reporting Requirement [SB-858]
[Crime ]
[Data Privacy ]
[Technology and Innovation ]
[Consumer Protection ]
[Public Safety ]
Authorizing a person to bring and maintain a civil action for defamation under certain circumstances; and altering the prohibition against revenge porn to prohibit a person from knowingly distributing a computer-generated visual representation that is indistinguishable from another actual and identifiable person under certain circumstances.
Sponsored by: Sen. Brian J. Feldman
Third Reading Passed (134-0) on 04/08/2024
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Maryland 2024 Regular Session
Juvenile Law - Reform [SB-744]
[Crime ]
[Criminal Justice ]
[Children and Youth ]
[Public Safety ]
[Law Enforcement ]
Altering the jurisdiction of the juvenile court over a child of a certain age alleged to have committed a certain offense; altering certain procedures relating to juvenile intake, detention, and probation; requiring the Secretary of Juvenile Services to include certain programs in a certain plan; requiring the State Board of Victim Services to include certain information about filing a certain complaint in a certain pamphlet; repealing certain provisions relating to the State Advisory Board for Juvenile Services; etc.
Sponsored by: Sen. William C. Smith
Hearing 3/26 At 1:00 P.m. on 03/20/2024
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Maryland 2024 Regular Session
Juvenile Law - Reform [HB-814]
[Crime ]
[Criminal Justice ]
[Education ]
[Public Safety ]
[Children and Youth ]
Altering the jurisdiction of the juvenile court over a child of a certain age alleged to have committed a certain offense; altering certain provisions relating to the taking of a child into custody by a law enforcement officer; expanding certain provisions of law relating to the entry onto certain school or other property by, and the education of, certain sex offender registrants; altering certain provisions relating to the Commission on Juvenile Justice Reform and Emerging and Best Practices; etc.
Sponsored by: Rep. Luke Clippinger
Approved By The Governor - Chapter 735 on 05/16/2024
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Arizona Fifty-sixth Legislature - Second Regular Session (2024)
Arizona supreme court; lobbyists; prohibition [SB-1586]
[Ethics ]
Arizona supreme court; lobbyists; prohibition
Sponsored by: Sen. Justine Wadsack
Senate Committee Of The Whole Action: Do Pass on 02/26/2024