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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
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Judicial and Public Safety for Service Members Act [HB-1060]
[Veterans ]
[Military ]
[Family-Related Legislation ]
[Public Safety ]
[Real Estate ]
[Crime ]
[Criminal Justice ]
[Law Enforcement ]
Establishing rules of interpretation related to the uniformed services; altering the rule of interpretation for "veteran"; and altering the application of certain provisions of judicial proceedings, corrections, criminal, family, public safety, and real property laws to apply to all uniformed services, rather than only the armed forces.
Sponsored by: Rep. Charlotte Agnes Crutchfield
Approved By The Governor - Chapter 262 on 05/06/2025
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Circuit Court Judges and District Court Judges – Selection and Tenure [SB-954]
[Elections ]
[Ethics ]
[Law Enforcement ]
[Public Safety ]
[Criminal Justice ]
Proposing an amendment to the Maryland Constitution relating to the selection and tenure of circuit court and District Court judges; requiring Senate confirmation of individuals appointed by the Governor to the office of a judge of a circuit court; prohibiting a judge of a circuit court or of the District Court from performing the duties of office until confirmed by the Senate; authorizing the Governor to convene a session of the Senate during a recess of the General Assembly in order to confirm a judicial appointment; etc.
Sponsored by: Sen. Chris West
Hearing 2/18 At 1:00 P.m. on 02/04/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Queen Anne's County - Circuit Court Judgeships [SB-877]
[Law Enforcement ]
[Criminal Justice ]
Increasing to two the number of resident judges of the Circuit Court for Queen Anne's County.
Sponsored by: Sen. Stephen S Hershey
Hearing 2/18 At 1:00 P.m. on 02/04/2025
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Arizona Fifty-seventh Legislature - First Regular Session (2025)
Retirement; judges; elected officials [SB-1712]
[Retirement ]
[Pensions ]
Retirement; judges; elected officials
Sponsored by: Sen. David Gowan
Senate Read Second Time on 03/31/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Baltimore City and Montgomery County - Stop Sign Monitoring Systems - Authorization MC 4-25 [HB-1032]
[Transportation and Motor Vehicles ]
[Public Safety ]
[Education ]
[Children and Youth ]
[Law Enforcement ]
Authorizing the use of stop sign monitoring systems in school zones in Baltimore City and Montgomery County under the pilot program authorized for Prince George's County, if authorized by local law; and requiring the Montgomery County Department of Transportation and the Baltimore City Department of Transportation to individually report to the Governor and General Assembly by December 1, 2027, the data on the program through October 1, 2027, in their individual jurisdictions.
Sponsored by: Rep. Caylin Allen Young
Favorable With Amendments {623025/1 Adopted on 04/04/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Queen Anne's County - Circuit Court Judgeships [HB-975]
[Law Enforcement ]
[Criminal Justice ]
Increasing to two the number of resident judges of the Circuit Court for Queen Anne's County.
Sponsored by: Rep. Steven J. Arentz
Hearing Canceled on 03/04/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Forensic Mental Health Treatment [SB-741]
[Healthcare ]
[Mental Health ]
[Public Health ]
[Funding ]
[Criminal Justice ]
[Law Enforcement ]
[Crime ]
Altering the circumstances under which a certificate of need for changing bed capacity in a health care facility is required; establishing the Workgroup on Forensic Mental Health Treatment; requiring the Workgroup to develop a certain form to be used by judges in a proceeding related to incompetency to stand trial; establishing the Forensic Mental Health Treatment Fund as a special, nonlapsing fund; requiring courts to remit certain fines and monetary penalties into the Fund; etc.
Sponsored by: Sen. Clarence K. Lam
Hearing 3/04 At 1:00 P.m. (finance) on 02/06/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Real Time for Violent Crime Act (Geri's Law) [SB-735]
[Crime ]
[Criminal Justice ]
[Public Safety ]
[Law Enforcement ]
Prohibiting the earning of diminution credits to reduce the term of confinement of an incarcerated individual who is serving a sentence for murder in the first degree or murder in the second degree in a State or local correctional facility; prohibiting a deduction of diminution credits of more than 10% of an incarcerated individual's aggregate sentence for crimes of violence for an incarcerated individual who is serving a sentence for a crime of violence; etc.
Sponsored by: Sen. Mary Elizabeth Carozza
Hearing 3/04 At 1:00 P.m. on 02/04/2025
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Arizona Fifty-seventh Legislature - First Regular Session (2025)
Ballot measures; judges; odd-numbered years [SCR-1020]
[Elections ]
[Voting Rights ]
Ballot measures; judges; odd-numbered years
Sponsored by: Sen. Mark W. Finchem
Senate Jude Committee Action: Held, Voting: (0-0-0-0) on 02/19/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
St. Mary's County - Judgeships - Circuit Courts [HB-864]
[Law Enforcement ]
[Criminal Justice ]
Altering the number of resident judges of the circuit courts by adding one additional judgeship in St. Mary's County.
Sponsored by: Rep. Matt Morgan
Referred Judicial Proceedings on 02/28/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Circuit Court Judges - Selection and Retention Elections [SB-630]
[Elections ]
[Law Enforcement ]
[Voting Rights ]
[Criminal Justice ]
Proposing amendments to the Maryland Constitution relating to the selection and tenure of circuit court judges; altering the method of filling vacancies in the office of a judge of a circuit court; providing for retention elections following an appointment to fill a vacancy in the office of a judge of a circuit court; providing for a transitional period during which the terms of certain amendments are to become effective; and submitting this amendment to the qualified voters of the State for their adoption or rejection.
Sponsored by: Sen. Judicial Proceedings
Hearing 2/12 At 1:00 P.m. on 02/03/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
St. Mary's County - Judgeships - Circuit Courts [SB-620]
[Law Enforcement ]
[Criminal Justice ]
Altering the number of resident judges of the circuit courts by adding one additional judgeship in St. Mary's County.
Sponsored by: Sen. Judicial Proceedings
Hearing 2/11 At 1:00 P.m. on 02/03/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
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Judiciary Department - Commission on Judicial Disabilities - Temporary Appointment [HB-788]
[Law Enforcement ]
[Ethics ]
[Criminal Justice ]
Allowing the chair of the Commission on Judicial Disabilities to appoint a former member to temporarily fill a certain vacancy on the Commission; allowing the Governor, on certain request of the chair, to appoint a temporary substitute member or extend the term of an existing member of the Commission; and requiring that any temporary substitute is subject to the same qualifications applicable to the member the substitute is replacing and, if the member is a judge or an attorney, must be a member in good standing of the Maryland bar.
Sponsored by: Rep. Frank M Conaway
Assigned A Chapter Number, Enactment Subject To Constitutional Referendum - Chapter 848 on 05/25/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Circuit Court Judges - Selection and Retention Elections [HB-778]
[Elections ]
[Law Enforcement ]
[Voting Rights ]
[Criminal Justice ]
Proposing amendments to the Maryland Constitution relating to the selection and tenure of circuit court judges; altering the method of filling vacancies in the office of a judge of a circuit court; providing for retention elections following an appointment to fill a vacancy in the office of a judge of a circuit court; providing for a transitional period during which the terms of certain amendments are to become effective; and submitting this amendment to the qualified voters of the State for their adoption or rejection.
Sponsored by: Rep. Judiciary
Hearing 2/12 At 1:00 P.m. (judiciary) on 01/30/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
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Judiciary Department - Commission on Judicial Disabilities - Temporary Appointment [SB-619]
[Law Enforcement ]
[Ethics ]
[Criminal Justice ]
Allowing the chair of the Commission on Judicial Disabilities to appoint a former member to temporarily fill a certain vacancy on the Commission; allowing the Governor, on certain request of the chair, to appoint a temporary substitute member or extend the term of an existing member of the Commission; and requiring that any temporary substitute is subject to the same qualifications applicable to the member the substitute is replacing and, if the member is a judge or an attorney, must be a member in good standing of the Maryland bar.
Sponsored by: Sen. Judicial Proceedings
Assigned A Chapter Number, Enactment Subject To Constitutional Referendum - Chapter 849 on 05/25/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Real Time for Violent Crime Act [HB-734]
[Crime ]
[Criminal Justice ]
[Public Safety ]
[Law Enforcement ]
Prohibiting the earning of diminution credits to reduce the term of confinement of an incarcerated individual who is serving a sentence for murder in the first degree or murder in the second degree in a State or local correctional facility; prohibiting a deduction of diminution credits of more than 10% of an incarcerated individual's aggregate sentence for crimes of violence for an incarcerated individual who is serving a sentence for a crime of violence; etc.
Sponsored by: Rep. Nicholaus R Kipke
Hearing Canceled on 02/17/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Criminal Procedure - Diagnosis of Developmental Disability or Intellectual Disability - Evidence [SB-507]
[Criminal Justice ]
[Crime ]
[Disabilities ]
[Mental Health ]
[Public Safety ]
Providing that certain evidence of certain diagnoses is admissible in a criminal proceeding if the evidence tends to show that the defendant, at the time of the alleged offense, did or did not have the mental state required for the offense charged and is otherwise admissible; and requiring a judge or a District Court commissioner to consider any diagnosis for the defendant of a certain developmental disability or intellectual disability when making a pretrial release determination.
Sponsored by: Sen. Shaneka Henson
Hearing Canceled on 02/06/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Criminal Procedure - Diagnosis of Developmental Disability or Intellectual Disability - Evidence [HB-703]
[Criminal Justice ]
[Crime ]
[Disabilities ]
[Mental Health ]
[Public Safety ]
Providing that certain evidence of certain diagnoses is admissible in a criminal proceeding if the evidence tends to show that the defendant, at the time of the alleged offense, did or did not have the mental state required for the offense charged and is otherwise admissible; and requiring a judge or a District Court commissioner to consider any diagnosis for the defendant of a certain developmental disability or intellectual disability when making a pretrial release determination.
Sponsored by: Rep. Susan K McComas
Hearing 2/11 At 1:00 P.m. on 01/27/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
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Property Tax - Credit for Law Enforcement Officer or Rescue Worker - Expansion to Judicial Officer [SB-502]
[Property Tax ]
[Law Enforcement ]
[Taxes ]
[Public Safety ]
[Criminal Justice ]
Authorizing the governing body of a county or municipal corporation or the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore City to provide a certain property tax credit to certain judicial officers, surviving spouses, or cohabitants; requiring the county or municipal corporation to define, by law, who is a correctional officer and judicial officer; and applying the Act retroactively to all taxable years beginning after June 30, 2022.
Sponsored by: Sen. James C. Rosapepe
Approved By The Governor - Chapter 130 on 04/22/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
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Peace Orders and Protective Orders – Military Protection Orders [HB-533]
[Crime ]
[Law Enforcement ]
[Military ]
[Public Safety ]
[Veterans ]
Authorizing a judge to consider whether a military protection order has been issued against a respondent when determining whether to grant a temporary peace order or a temporary protective order; and requiring a law enforcement officer to notify a certain law enforcement agency that an individual may have violated a military protection order under certain circumstances.
Sponsored by: Rep. Charlotte Agnes Crutchfield
Approved By The Governor - Chapter 530 on 05/13/2025