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Maryland 2012 Regular Session
Child Abuse - Failure to Report - Civil Penalty and Child Abuse Prevention Fund [SB-626]
Authorizing the Attorney General to institute a civil action against specified professionals who fail to report child abuse or neglect under specified circumstances; establishing a specified civil penalty for each violation; requiring a civil penalty collected under the Act to be deposited in the Child Abuse Prevention Fund; etc.
Sponsored by: Sen. Ronald Young
Hearing 3/6 At 1:00 P.m. on 02/08/2012
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Criminal Procedure - Criminal Defendants - Citations and Appearances [SB-422]
Declaring the intention of the General Assembly to monitor specified issues and determine whether modification of the Act is required at a specified time; authorizing an individual to file an application for a statement of charges with a District Court commissioner; authorizing the District Court commissioner to issue a summons or an arrest warrant under specified circumstances; requiring a police officer to charge a person by citation for specified misdemeanors and local ordinance violations; etc.
Sponsored by: Sen. Brian Frosh
Approved By The Governor on 05/22/2012
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Task Force to Study Access of Individuals with Mental Illness to Regulated [HB-618]
Establishing a Task Force to Study Access of Individuals with Mental Illness to Regulated Firearms; providing for the membership, staffing, and duties of the Task Force; requiring the Task Force to report to the Governor and the General Assembly by December 31, 2012, on whether existing law adequately protects the public, as well as the civil rights of individuals with mental illness, and make recommendations as appropriate; etc.
Sponsored by: Rep. Kathleen Dumais
Approved By The Governor on 04/10/2012
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Criminal Procedure - Seizure and Forfeiture - Property Used in Human [HB-391]
Authorizing a State or local law enforcement agency to seize specified property used or intended for use in connection with a violation of the law prohibiting human trafficking; creating the Anti-Human Trafficking Fund for specified purposes; specifying property that is subject to forfeiture; specifying conditions to exclude property from forfeiture; authorizing the seizure of property with or without a warrant under specified circumstances; applying the Act prospectively; etc.
Sponsored by: Rep. Kathleen Dumais
First Reading Judiciary on 02/01/2012
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Criminal Procedure - Criminal Defendants - Citations and Appearances [HB-261]
Declaring the intention of the General Assembly to monitor issues and determine whether modification of a specified Act is required; authorizing an individual to file an application for a statement of charges with a District Court commissioner; authorizing a District Court commissioner to issue a summons or an arrest warrant under specified circumstances; requiring a police officer to charge a person by citation for specified misdemeanors and local ordinance violations; etc.
Sponsored by: Rep. Kathleen Dumais
Approved By The Governor on 05/22/2012
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Criminal Procedure - Misdemeanors and Local Ordinance Violations - Citations [HB-119]
Requiring a police officer to charge a person by citation for specified misdemeanors and local ordinance violations; expanding the authority of a police officer to charge a person by citation to include specified misdemeanors and local ordinance violations; establishing that a police officer may charge a defendant by citation only under specified circumstances; providing that, under specified circumstances, an officer who has grounds to make a warrantless arrest may take a specified action; etc.
Sponsored by: Rep. Sally Jameson
Favorable With Amendments Report By Judicial Proceedings on 04/06/2012
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Maryland 2012 Regular Session
Child Abuse - Failure to Report - Civil Penalty and Child Abuse Prevention Fund [HB-1102]
Authorizing the Attorney General to institute a civil action against specified professionals who fail to report child abuse or neglect under specified circumstances; establishing a specified civil penalty for each violation; requiring a civil penalty collected under the Act to be deposited in the Child Abuse Prevention Fund; etc.
Sponsored by: Sen. Susan Lee
Hearing 3/14 At 1:00 P.m. on 02/15/2012
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Maryland 2011 Regular Session
Budget Reconciliation and Balancing Act [SB-984]
Altering or repealing specified required appropriations; repealing provisions of law regarding stem cell research; altering or repealing specified grant programs; altering or repealing specified funding requirements; altering the calculation of specified State aid for education; altering State aid provided to community colleges and to specified nonpublic institutions of higher education; altering the distribution of specified revenues; altering the use of specified funds; etc.
Sponsored by: Sen. David Brinkley
Hearing 3/18 At 1:00 P.m. on 03/15/2011
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Task Force to Study High School Dropout Rates of Persons in the Criminal [SB-755]
Establishing the Task Force to Study High School Dropout Rates of Persons in the Criminal Justice System; providing for the membership and staffing of the Task Force; requiring the Governor to designate the chair of the Task Force; requiring the Task Force to study high school dropout statistics of specified persons in the criminal justice system, obtain specified data, and make recommendations in a report to the Governor and the General Assembly on or before December 31, 2012; etc.
Sponsored by: Sen. Catherine Pugh
Approved By The Governor on 05/10/2011
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Public Safety - Use of Electronic Control Devices - Reports [SB-652]
Requiring a law enforcement agency that issues electronic control devices (ECDs) to its law enforcement officers to report annually on or before March 31 to the Governor's Office of Crime Control and Prevention, information for each time a law enforcement officer discharges an ECD, using a specified format; requiring the Governor's Office of Crime Control and Prevention to analyze and summarize reports and to submit an annual report to the Governor, the General Assembly, and each law enforcement agency; etc.
Sponsored by: Sen. Victor Ramirez
Approved By The Governor on 04/12/2011
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Medical Marijuana - Affirmative Defenses - Maryland Medical Marijuana Model [SB-308]
Establishing that, in a prosecution for the use or possession of marijuana, or the use or possession with intent to use drug paraphernalia related to marijuana, it is an affirmative defense that the defendant used or possessed marijuana or drug paraphernalia related to marijuana because the defendant has a debilitating condition, the condition is severe and resistant to conventional medicine, and marijuana is likely to provide the defendant with therapeutic or palliative relief from the condition; etc.
Sponsored by: Sen. Ulysses Currie
Approved By The Governor on 05/10/2011
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Criminal Procedure - Seizure and Forfeiture - Property Used in Human [SB-247]
Authorizing a State or local law enforcement agency to seize specified property used or intended for use in connection with a violation of the law prohibiting human trafficking; creating the Anti-Human Trafficking Fund for specified purposes; specifying property subject to forfeiture; specifying conditions to exclude property from forfeiture; authorizing the seizure of property with or without a warrant under specified circumstances; applying the Act prospectively; etc.
Sponsored by: Sen. J.B. Jennings
Hearing 3/30 At 1:00 P.m. on 03/21/2011
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Task Force on Diminution Credits [SB-173]
Establishing a Task Force on Diminution Credits; providing for the composition, chair, and staffing of the Task Force; requiring the Task Force to review policies, procedures, laws, and national best practices in the area of diminution credits; requiring the Task Force to make recommendations to the Governor and the General Assembly on or before December 1, 2012; and terminating the Act at the end of June 30, 2013.
Sponsored by: Sen. John Astle
Favorable With Amendments Report By Judicial Proceedings on 03/28/2011
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Vehicle Laws - Race-Based Traffic Stops [SB-14]
Requiring law enforcement officers to record data pertaining to traffic stops; requiring law enforcement agencies to report the information to the Maryland Statistical Analysis Center (MSAC); requiring the Police Training Commission to develop guidelines and a model format to record data; requiring the MSAC to report to the Police Training Commission those law enforcement agencies that fail to comply with the reporting requirements; providing exceptions for law enforcement agencies subject to specified agreements; etc.
Sponsored by: Sen. Lisa Gladden
Approved By The Governor on 05/10/2011
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Criminal Procedure - Victims' Resource Center - Funding [HB-922]
Requiring the Governor's Office of Crime Control and Prevention to sustain the Victims' Resource Center; requiring the Victims' Resource Center to perform certain functions; increasing, from $3 to $5, a cost that a court is required to impose on a defendant convicted of a specified offense; altering the required distribution of these fees and including the Victims' Resource Center as a recipient of a specified portion of the fees; etc.
Sponsored by: Rep. Joseph Vallario
First Reading Judiciary on 02/11/2011
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Sexual Assault Crisis Programs and Domestic Violence Programs - Transfer to the [HB-739]
Transferring responsibilities for sexual assault crisis programs and domestic violence programs from the Department of Human Resources to the Governor's Office of Crime Control and Prevention; transferring specified appropriations held by the Department of Human Resources to the Governor's Office of Crime Control and Prevention; etc.
Sponsored by: No sponsors
Approved By The Governor on 05/10/2011
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Task Force to Study Access of Individuals with Mental Illness to Regulated [HB-730]
Establishing a Task Force to Study Access of Individuals with Mental Illness to Regulated Firearms; providing for the membership, staffing, and duties of the Task Force; requiring the Task Force to report to the Governor and the General Assembly by December 31, 2011, on legislative options for limiting the access to regulated firearms of individuals with a history of mental illness, and expanding the access of law enforcement officers to specified mental health records.
Sponsored by: Rep. Kathleen Dumais
Unfavorable Report By Judicial Proceedings on 04/06/2011
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Counties and Municipal Corporations - "Sanctuary Laws" for Illegal Aliens - [HB-677]
Requiring counties and municipal corporations to fully comply with and support federal immigration law; prohibiting counties and municipal corporations from restricting their employees from requesting, obtaining, sending, receiving, exchanging, or maintaining immigration information; requiring counties and municipal corporations to enforce federal immigration law and protect civil rights; clarifying that a specified provision of law applies to subdivisions and qualifying municipalities; etc.
Sponsored by: Rep. Nicholaus Kipke
Unfavorable Report By Judiciary on 03/25/2011
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Maryland 2011 Regular Session
Task Force to Study High School Dropout Rates of Persons in the Criminal [HB-646]
Establishing the Task Force to Study High School Dropout Rates of Persons in the Criminal Justice System; providing for the membership and staffing of the Task Force; requiring the Governor to designate the chair of the Task Force; requiring the Task Force to study high school dropout statistics of specified persons in the criminal justice system, obtain specified data, and make recommendations in a report to the Governor and the General Assembly on or before December 31, 2012; etc.
Sponsored by: Rep. Joseline Pena-Melnyk
Re-referred Education Health And Environmental Affairs on 04/11/2011
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Public Safety - Use of Electronic Control Devices - Reports [HB-507]
Requiring a law enforcement agency that issues electronic control devices (ECDs) to its law enforcement officers to report annually on or before March 31 to the Governor's Office of Crime Control and Prevention, information for each time a law enforcement officer discharges an ECD except during training, using a specified format; requiring the Governor's Office of Crime Control and Prevention to analyze and summarize reports and to submit an annual report to the Governor, the General Assembly, and each law enforcement agency; etc.
Sponsored by: Rep. Talmadge Branch
Approved By The Governor on 04/12/2011