Bail
Hawaii 2019 Regular Session
Relating To Bail. [SB-1538]
Requires bail to be set in reasonable amounts based upon all available information, including the alleged offense, possible punishment upon conviction, and the offender's financial ability to afford bail. Repeals the requirement of an officer letting to bail to consider the punishment to be inflicted on conviction and the pecuniary circumstances of the party accused. Allows pretrial service officers to access other state agencies' data on an offender's wages and tax information for the limited purpose of determining an appropriate bail amount. (SD1)
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Gettr Hawaii 2019 Regular Session
Relating To Crime. [HB-294]
Establishes a presumption that a person charged with a crime is entitled to unconditional release unless proven otherwise. Requires the consideration of nonfinancial conditions of release before bail is ordered.
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Hawaii 2019 Regular Session
Relating To Bail. [HB-1542]
Incorporates the statutory revisions suggested by the Criminal Pretrial Task Force established by House Concurrent Resolution No. 134, 2017 Regular Session.
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Maryland 2016 Regular Session
Criminal Procedure - Petition for Writ of Actual Innocence - Appeal Right [SB-971]
Providing that a person aggrieved by an order on a petition for writ of actual innocence, including the Attorney General and a State's Attorney, may appeal to the Court of Special Appeals; requiring the appeal to be in a form set by the Maryland Rules; and providing that the court may stay the order and set bail under specified circumstances.
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Maryland 2016 Regular Session
Poultry Litter Management Act [SB-496]
Requiring a specified integrator to place poultry only at a contract operation that maintains a specified nutrient management plan; requiring an integrator to be responsible for the removal and delivery of all excess manure in accordance with specified requirements; requiring integrators, or manure brokers or manure transporters working under contract with an integrator, to deliver excess manure only to specified facilities; etc.
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Maryland 2016 Regular Session
Surety Insurance - Application for Bonds [SB-470]
Altering the prohibition against a surety insurer inquiring about specified information in connection with an application for a bail bond or an immigration bond.
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Maryland 2016 Regular Session
Landlord and Tenant - Expedited Eviction Proceedings - Notice and Appeals [SB-463]
Reducing the notice period from 14 days to 5 days before a landlord may file an action to evict a tenant for a breach of the lease that involves specified dangerous behavior; reducing from 10 days to 4 days the amount of time after entry of a specified judgment during which a specified party may appeal to the circuit court in an eviction proceeding based on a breach of the lease that involves specified dangerous behavior; and making technical and stylistic changes.
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Maryland 2016 Regular Session
Criminal Law - First Degree Murder - Sentencing (Geraldine's Law) [SB-402]
Requiring the court to impose lifetime supervision for a person sentenced to imprisonment for life for first degree murder; requiring the lifetime supervision to include at least 5 years of supervised probation, electronic monitoring for life following release, and specified conditions as determined by the court; authorizing a person to file a petition for discharge from lifetime supervision and requiring a court to hear and adjudicate the petition; prohibiting more than one petition for discharge in 1 year; etc.
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Maryland 2016 Regular Session
Criminal Procedure - Expungement [SB-328]
Authorizing a person to file a petition for expungement of specified misdemeanor convictions; requiring a person to file a petition for expungement in a specified court; providing that a petition for expungement of specified misdemeanor convictions may not be filed earlier than 10 years after the person satisfied the specified sentence or sentences imposed for all convictions for which expungement is requested; requiring the court to provided written notice of the petition to all victims listed in the case; etc.
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Maryland 2016 Regular Session
Juvenile Court - Jurisdiction [SB-243]
Repealing provisions of law that exclude from the jurisdiction of the juvenile court a child of a specified age alleged to have committed specified offenses; repealing provisions of law governing the transfer of specified criminal cases to the juvenile court; etc.
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Maryland 2016 Regular Session
Juvenile Law - Adjudication of Delinquency - Collateral Consequences [SB-209]
Requiring that, before a child admits to the commission of a delinquent act, the child's counsel inform the child in developmentally and age-appropriate language of specified collateral consequences that may result from an adjudication of delinquency.
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Maryland 2016 Regular Session
Interstate Boating Violator Compact [SB-123]
Authorizing the Governor to enter into the Interstate Boating Violator Compact; providing the purposes of the Compact are to provide a means for party states to participate in a specified reciprocal program and to provide for the fair and impartial treatment of boating violators operating within party states; providing for a Board of Boating Compact Administrators for specified purposes; requiring the Department of Natural Resources to adopt specified regulations; etc.
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Maryland 2016 Regular Session
Criminal Procedure - Determination of Eligibility for Services - Office of the Public Defender [SB-1156]
Requiring a commissioner to determine the indigence of a specified individual at a specified proceeding under specified circumstances; and providing a presumption that an individual qualified as indigent by a commissioner at an initial appearance qualifies for the service of the Office of the Public Defender.
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Maryland 2016 Regular Session
Surety Insurance - Application for Bonds [HB-678]
Altering the prohibition against a surety insurer inquiring about specified information in connection with an application for a bail bond or an immigration bond.
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Maryland 2016 Regular Session
Juvenile Law - Adjudication of Delinquency - Collateral Consequences [HB-634]
Requiring that, before a child admits to the commission of a delinquent act, the child's counsel inform the child in developmentally and age-appropriate language of specified collateral consequences that may result from an adjudication of delinquency.
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Maryland 2016 Regular Session
Poultry Litter Management Act [HB-599]
Requiring a specified integrator to place poultry only at a contract operation that maintains a specified nutrient management plan; requiring an integrator to be responsible for the removal and delivery of all excess manure in accordance with specified requirements; requiring an integrator to be responsible for the removal and delivery of all excess manure; requiring integrators, or manure brokers or manure transporters working under contract with an integrator, to deliver excess manure only to specified facilities; etc.
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Maryland 2016 Regular Session
Office of the Public Defender - Representation at Bail Hearing - Provisional [HB-589]
Establishing that the representation provided by the Office of the Public Defender to an indigent individual at a bail hearing before a District Court or circuit court judge shall be limited solely to the bail hearing and shall terminate automatically at the conclusion of the hearing; etc.
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Maryland 2016 Regular Session
Juvenile Court - Jurisdiction [HB-304]
Repealing provisions of law that exclude from the jurisdiction of the juvenile court a child of a specified age alleged to have committed specified offenses; repealing provisions of law governing the transfer of specified criminal cases to the juvenile court; etc.
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Maryland 2016 Regular Session
Habitual Drunk Driver - Mandatory Minimum Penalty and Vehicle Forfeiture [HB-1306]
Altering a specified mandatory minimum penalty for a third or subsequent offense of driving under the influence of alcohol or under the influence of alcohol per se; authorizing, with a specified exception, the seizure and forfeiture of a motor vehicle that a person drives or attempts to drive while under the influence of alcohol when the person is convicted of a third or subsequent violation of driving or attempting to drive while under the influence of alcohol or under the influence of alcohol per se within 10 years; etc.
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Maryland 2016 Regular Session
Criminal Procedure - Petition for Writ of Actual Innocence - Appeal Right [HB-1202]
Providing that a person aggrieved by an order on a petition for writ of actual innocence, including the Attorney General and a State's Attorney, may appeal to the Court of Special Appeals; requiring the appeal to be in a form set by the Maryland Rules; and providing that the court may stay the order and set bail under specified circumstances.