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Maryland 2020 Regular Session
Criminal Procedure - Family Law Services for Sustained Safety Fund [SB-581]
Establishing the Family Law Services for Sustained Safety Fund to increase legal services in family law cases for victims in order to help ensure safety and long-term stability after victimization; requiring the Governor's Office of Crime Control and Prevention to administer the Fund; requiring each grantee from the Fund to receive training on the effects of domestic violence, sexual assault, child abuse, and elder abuse; prohibiting a grantee from requesting an individual to waive certain rights in order to receive services; etc.
Sponsored by: Sen. Susan Lee
Hearing Canceled (judicial Proceedings) on 02/12/2020
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Task Force to Study Impaired Driving and New Technologies [HB-762]
Establishing the Task Force to Study Impaired Driving and New Technologies to study efforts made to reduce impaired driving in the last 20 years, current initiatives, national best practices, and new technologies to combat impaired driving; requiring the Task Force to make recommendations regarding new State initiatives, public awareness efforts, and improved coordination and to report its findings to the Governor and the General Assembly on or before December 1, 2021; etc.
Sponsored by: Rep. Nicole Williams
Hearing 2/19 At 1:00 P.m. on 02/03/2020
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Public Safety - Empowering Communities to Counter Racially Motivated Violent Extremism Program Fund - Establishment [HB-741]
Establishing the Empowering Communities to Counter Racially Motivated Violent Extremism Program Fund to provide grants to local governments to train individuals to recognize signs of racially motivated violent extremism and best practices for reporting and preventing racially motivated violent extremism; requiring the Executive Director of the Governor's Office of Crime Control and Prevention to establish certain procedures for local governments to apply for grants from the Fund and to award grants from the Fund; etc.
Sponsored by: Rep. Eric Luedtke
First Reading Judiciary on 01/30/2020
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Public Safety - Crisis Intervention Team Center of Excellence [HB-607]
Establishing the Crisis Intervention Team Center of Excellence in the Governor's Office of Crime Control and Prevention to provide technical support to local governments, law enforcement, public safety agencies, behavioral health agencies, and crisis service providers and to develop and implement a crisis intervention model program; requiring the Office to appoint certain coordinators to the Center; requiring the Center to take certain actions; requiring a certain annual report; etc.
Sponsored by: Rep. Alfred Carr
First Reading Judiciary on 01/29/2020
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State Commission on Criminal Sentencing Policy – Annual Report – Crimes of Violence [SB-481]
Requiring the State Commission on Criminal Sentencing Policy to report by December 1, 2021 and each December 1 thereafter, to the Governor, the House Judiciary Committee, and the Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee, certain information for the preceding calendar year for cases involving a crime of violence; requiring the Governor's Office of Crime Control and Prevention, in consultation with the Commission, to analyze the use of American Bar Association pleas in calendar year 2019 and submit a certain report; etc.
Sponsored by: Sen. Susan Lee
Hearing Canceled on 03/14/2020
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Public Safety - Crisis Intervention Team Center of Excellence [SB-305]
Establishing the Crisis Intervention Team Center of Excellence in the Governor's Office of Crime Control and Prevention to provide technical support to local governments, law enforcement, public safety agencies, behavioral health agencies, and crisis service providers and to develop and implement a crisis intervention model program; requiring the Office to appoint certain coordinators to the Center; requiring the Center to take certain actions; requiring a certain annual report; etc.
Sponsored by: Sen. Susan Lee
Enacted Under Article Ii, Section 17(c) Of The Maryland Constitution - Chapter 547 on 05/08/2020
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Business Regulation - Innkeepers - Records and Human Trafficking Awareness Training [HB-382]
Requiring an innkeeper to maintain a computerized record-keeping system of all guest transactions and receipts; requiring that certain records be kept for not less than 6 months from the date of the creation of the record; requiring the Governor's Office of Crime Control and Prevention and the Maryland Department of Labor to approve an educational training program and a refresher training program for identification and reporting of suspected human trafficking; providing certain requirements for a certain training program; etc.
Sponsored by: Rep. Mark Chang
Hearing 2/11 At 1:00 P.m. on 01/29/2020
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State Commission on Criminal Sentencing Policy - Annual Report - Crimes of Violence (The Judicial Transparency Act of 2020) [HB-355]
Requiring a certain annual report by the State Commission on Criminal Sentencing Policy to identify certain information for crimes of violence; requiring the Commission to include certain entry locations on a sentencing guidelines worksheet for a court to report certain information; and requiring the Governor's Office of Crime Control and Prevention to submit a certain report on certain pleas that contains certain data.
Sponsored by: Rep. Adrienne Jones
Hearing 2/04 At 1:00 P.m. on 01/21/2020
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Maryland 2020 Regular Session
State Commission on Criminal Sentencing Policy - Annual Report - Crimes of Violence (The Judicial Transparency Act of 2020) [SB-272]
Requiring a certain annual report by the State Commission on Criminal Sentencing Policy to identify certain information for crimes of violence; requiring the Commission to include certain entry locations on a sentencing guidelines worksheet for a court to report certain information; and requiring the Governor's Office of Crime Control and Prevention to submit a certain report on certain pleas that contains certain data.
Sponsored by: Sen. William Ferguson
Hearing 2/06 At 1:00 P.m. on 01/21/2020
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Victim's Rights - Restitution [SB-268]
Altering procedures relating to the award of a judgment of restitution; requiring a court to enter a judgment of restitution under certain circumstances; requiring certain notice, evidence, and procedures before a certain court orders a judgment of restitution; requiring a court to order a certain individual to pay restitution under certain circumstances; altering the circumstances under which a court is not required to order restitution; etc.
Sponsored by: Sen. William Ferguson
Hearing 2/06 At 1:00 P.m. on 01/21/2020
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Victim's Rights - Restitution [HB-358]
Altering procedures relating to the award of a judgment of restitution; requiring a court to enter a judgment of restitution under certain circumstances; requiring certain notice, evidence, and procedures before a certain court orders a judgment of restitution; requiring a court to order a certain individual to pay restitution under certain circumstances; providing the court may not consider the current inability of a restitution obligor to pay restitution as an extraordinary circumstance; etc.
Sponsored by: Rep. Adrienne Jones
Hearing 2/04 At 1:00 P.m. on 01/21/2020
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Criminal Procedure - Family Law Services for Sustained Safety Fund [HB-170]
Establishing the Family Law Services for Sustained Safety Fund to increase legal services in family law cases for victims in order to help ensure safety and long-term stability after victimization; requiring the Governor's Office of Crime Control and Prevention to administer the Fund; requiring each grantee from the Fund to receive training on the effects of domestic violence, sexual assault, child abuse, and elder abuse; prohibiting a grantee from requesting an individual to waive certain rights in order to receive services; etc.
Sponsored by: Rep. Kathleen Dumais
Unfavorable Report By Judiciary; Withdrawn on 02/17/2020
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Criminal Procedure - Governor's Office of Crime Control and Prevention - Reporting of Seizures and Forfeitures [HB-69]
Requiring a certain seizing authority promptly to notify the Maryland Statistical Analysis Center (MSAC) of the Governor's Office of Crime Control and Prevention of any changes in the status of certain information previously reported under a certain provision of law; and altering from March 1 to September 1 the date by which the Maryland Statistical Analysis Center is required to make reports submitted by seizing authorities and the aggregate report of MSAC available on its website each year.
Sponsored by: Rep. Robin Grammer
First Reading Judiciary on 01/09/2020
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Correctional Services - Inmates - Labor [SB-1119]
Requiring the Commissioner of Correction to include in a specified report specified statistics related to inmate employment and wages at specified facilities; requiring the Division of Correction to include in a report regarding Maryland Correctional Enterprises specified statistics regarding inmate employment and wages; establishing the Task Force on Inmate Labor to analyze specified hurdles to greater inmate compensation, to track specified outcomes of inmate employment, and to survey specified employed inmates; etc.
Sponsored by: Sen. Charles Muse
Unfavorable Report By Judicial Proceedings; Withdrawn on 03/17/2017
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Criminal Procedure - Victim Services Unit - Victims' Compensation [HB-1428]
Establishing a Victim Services Unit in the Governor's Office of Crime Control and Prevention; transferring the Criminal Injuries Compensation Board from the Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services to the Victim Services Unit; transferring the program for sexual assault forensic examinations from the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene to the Victim Services Unit; requiring, each year, the Governor's Office of Crime Control and Prevention to report on matters related to crime victims by December 31; etc.
Sponsored by: Rep.
Hearing 4/07 At 9:30 A.m. on 04/07/2017
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Public Safety - Use of Force De-Escalation Training of Law Enforcement Officers - Reports [HB-1503]
Requiring a law enforcement agency to report at a specified interval to the Governor's Office of Crime Control and Prevention on specified policies and procedures related to use of force de-escalation training for its law enforcement officers; requiring the Governor's Office of Crime Control and Prevention to adopt procedures for the collection, analysis, and compilation of specified use of force de-escalation training information received from a specified law enforcement agency; etc.
Sponsored by: Sen. Nathaniel Oaks
Hearing 3/28 At 1:00 P.m. on 03/28/2017
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Criminal Procedure - Pretrial Release - Reform [HB-1390]
Altering a requirement for the construction of a specified provision of law relating to pretrial release of a specified defendant on personal recognizance and unsecured bond; requiring a judicial officer to impose a specified condition or combination of conditions of release under specified circumstances; authorizing a judicial officer to impose one or more specified nonfinancial conditions of release under specified circumstances; providing that a judicial officer may impose financial conditions only under specified circumstances; etc.
Sponsored by: Rep. Kumar Barve
Hearing 3/07 At 1:00 P.m. on 03/07/2017
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Human Trafficking Victims - Establishment of Diversionary Docket and Workgroup [HB-1202]
Requiring the circuit administrative judge in each circuit to establish and maintain a specified diversionary docket for minors to be used as an alternative to conviction for an offense or adjudication of a child as delinquent; providing specifications for participation in the diversionary docket; establishing the Workgroup to Study Single-Point Entry for Services and Criminal Immunity for Victims of Human Trafficking to study specified issues relating to minors who are victims of human trafficking; etc.
Sponsored by: Rep. Kathleen Dumais
Unfavorable Report By Judiciary on 03/13/2017
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Vehicle Laws - Victim's Representative Notification - License Suspension Hearing [HB-1071]
Requiring the Maryland Police Training and Standards Commission to distribute the victim's representation notification form developed by the Governor's Office of Crime Control and Prevention to each law enforcement agency in the State; requiring a specified investigating agency to provide specified information and a specified form to a victim's representative; altering the time period during which a victim's representative may file a specified form to at least 30 days prior to a specified hearing; etc.
Sponsored by: Rep. Marvin Holmes
Approved By The Governor - Chapter 702 on 05/25/2017
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Task Force to Study Law Enforcement Surveillance Technologies [HB-1065]
Establishing the Task Force to Study Law Enforcement Surveillance Technologies for the purpose of reviewing the current and planned use of surveillance technology by law enforcement agencies in the State, including specified matters; requiring State agencies represented to staff the Task Force; requiring the Task Force to submit its findings and recommendations to the Governor and the General Assembly on or before December 5, 2017; etc.
Sponsored by: Sen. Charles Sydnor
Hearing 3/28 At 1:00 P.m. on 03/28/2017