Juvenile Causes
Maryland 2021 Regular Session
Criminal Law - Felony Murder - Limitation and Review of Convictions for Children [HB-385]
[Children and Youth ]
[Criminal Justice ]
[Crime ]
[Law Enforcement ]
Altering provisions of law relating to murder in the first degree; providing that a person who was a child at the time of the offense may not be found to have committed murder in the first degree under certain provisions of law; authorizing a person convicted, on or before September 30, 2021, of first degree murder who was a child at the time of the offense to file a motion for review of conviction; requiring a court to hold a certain hearing on the filing of a motion for review of conviction under certain circumstances; etc.
Sponsored by: Rep. Erek Barron
Hearing 1/21 At 1:30 P.m. on 12/23/2021
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Public Safety - Local Youth Violence Review Committees [HB-93]
[Crime ]
[Public Safety ]
[Children and Youth ]
[Criminal Justice ]
Authorizing a county to establish a local youth violence review committee to prevent violence and homicides involving youth assailants and youth victims by promoting cooperation among certain agencies, providing youth services, determining the causes of youth violence, and recommending certain changes; specifying that certain officials may organize a local youth violence review committee; providing the committee with access to certain information; providing that certain records obtained by the committee are confidential; etc.
Sponsored by: Sen. Shaneka Henson
Withdrawn By Sponsor on 03/18/2021
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Maryland 2021 Regular Session
Juvenile Law - Juvenile Interrogation Protection Act [HB-315]
[Children and Youth ]
[Crime ]
[Criminal Justice ]
[Public Safety ]
Requiring a law enforcement officer who takes a child into custody to provide notice to the child's parents, guardian, or custodian in a manner reasonably calculated to give actual notice; prohibiting the interrogation of a child by a law enforcement officer until the child has consulted with a certain attorney and an effort to provide certain notice to the child's parent, guardian, or custodian has been made; requiring an interrogation of a child to be recorded under certain circumstances; etc.
Sponsored by: Rep. Robbyn Lewis
Referred Judicial Proceedings on 03/22/2021
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Maryland 2021 Regular Session
Public Safety – Police Athletic League Grant Fund – Establishment [HB-91]
[Public Safety ]
[Crime ]
[Funding ]
[Grants ]
[Children and Youth ]
[Community Development ]
Establishing the Police Athletic League Grant Fund to assist local governments and organizations to create and support police athletic league programs; defining "police athletic league programs" as those designed to build relationships among youth, police, and community through certain activities with the goal of preventing juvenile crime; requiring the Governor annually to appropriate $500,000 for the Fund; requiring the Executive Director to establish procedures for local governments and organizations to apply for grants from the Fund; etc.
Sponsored by: Sen. Carl W. Jackson
Hearing 2/03 At 1:30 P.m. on 01/19/2021
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Maryland 2021 Regular Session
Adoption - Access to Birth and Adoption Records and Search, Contact, and Reunion Services [SB-331]
[Family-Related Legislation ]
[Children and Youth ]
[Human Services ]
Repealing certain provisions of law specifying that certain provisions of law apply only to adoptions in which a juvenile court enters an order for adoption on or after January 1, 2000; altering, from 21 to 18, the age at which an adoptee, or biological parent if the adoptee is at least 18 years old, may apply for a copy of certain birth and adoption records; requiring the Director of Social Services to develop and make available a certain contact preference form; etc.
Sponsored by: Sen. Susan C Lee
Hearing 1/26 At 1:00 P.m. on 12/28/2021
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Maryland 2021 Regular Session
Juvenile Law - Informal Adjustment [HB-169]
[Children and Youth ]
[Criminal Justice ]
[Law Enforcement ]
[Public Safety ]
[Crime ]
Authorizing the juvenile court to refer a certain matter to the Department of Juvenile Services for a certain informal adjustment if the time for a certain adjudicatory hearing has been waived and the petition is not the result of an unsuccessful informal adjustment; providing a certain exception to the requirement that the court hold an adjudicatory hearing; and requiring a certain petition to be dismissed if a certain informal adjustment is successfully completed.
Sponsored by: Rep. Geraldine Valentino-Smith
Hearing 2/25 At 1:30 P.m. on 02/10/2021
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Maryland 2018 Regular Session
Social Services - Youth Victims of Human Trafficking - Workgroup Revisions and Reports [SB-964]
[Human Services ]
[Children and Youth ]
[Human Rights ]
[Crime ]
[Public Safety ]
[Law Enforcement ]
Requiring, on or before October 1, 2018, certain government agencies and organizations to submit an independent report to the Workgroup to Study Safe Harbor Policy for Youth victims of Human Trafficking and the university of Maryland School of Social Work Child Sex Trafficking Initiative; requiring the report to include certain information; requiring the Workgroup to establish a certain subcommittee to consider recommendations on the provision of statewide services for youth victims of human trafficking; etc.
Sponsored by: Sen. Susan C Lee
Hearing 4/03 At 1:00 P.m. on 04/03/2018
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Maryland 2018 Regular Session
Juvenile Law - Disclosure of Court Records [SB-91]
[Children and Youth ]
[Human Services ]
[Public Health ]
[Healthcare ]
[Data Privacy ]
[Law Enforcement ]
[Criminal Justice ]
Establishing that a prohibition against the disclosure of court records pertaining to a certain child does not prohibit access to and confidential use of the court record by the Department of Human Services, local departments of social services, the Maryland Department of Health, or local health departments in coordination with the Department of Juvenile Services for purposes relevant to the provision of services or care; and requiring that certain disclosed records be kept confidential in accordance with certain laws.
Sponsored by: Sen. Judicial Proceedings
Approved By The Governor - Chapter 669 on 05/15/2018
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Maryland 2018 Regular Session
Juvenile Law - Juvenile Court Jurisdiction [SB-863]
[Crime ]
[Criminal Justice ]
[Children and Youth ]
[Public Safety ]
Expanding the jurisdiction of the juvenile court by altering certain provisions of law that exclude from the jurisdiction of the juvenile court a child of a certain age alleged to have committed any of certain offenses; and making certain conforming changes in provisions of law relating to the distinction between an accessory before the fact and a principal in a crime.
Sponsored by: Sen. Delores G Kelley
Unfavorable Report By Judicial Proceedings on 03/23/2018
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Maryland 2018 Regular Session
Juvenile Law - Witnesses - Body Attachment [SB-861]
[Crime ]
[Criminal Justice ]
[Law Enforcement ]
[Public Safety ]
[Children and Youth ]
Authorizing the juvenile court, in a certain case in which jurisdiction is transferred from a court exercising criminal jurisdiction, to issue body attachments for witnesses as provided by a certain Maryland Rule.
Sponsored by: Sen. William C. Ferguson
Senators Brochin, Ramirez, And Ready on 04/09/2018
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Maryland 2018 Regular Session
Criminal Law - Death Penalty - Law Enforcement Officers and First Responders [SB-816]
[Crime ]
[Public Safety ]
[Criminal Justice ]
Providing that a person who is convicted of first degree murder may be sentenced to death under certain circumstances; providing that the murder of a law enforcement officer or a first responder under certain circumstances constitutes aggravating circumstances that the court or jury must consider in making a determination as to the imposition of the death penalty; establishing procedures for the imposition of the death penalty; etc.
Sponsored by: Sen. Johnny Ray Salling
Hearing 2/22 At 1:00 P.m. on 02/22/2018
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Maryland 2018 Regular Session
Children in Out-of-Home Placement - Rights [SB-787]
[Children and Youth ]
[Human Services ]
Requiring the Department of Human Services to develop a Foster Youth Bill of Rights delineating the rights of children in out-of-home placements; and requiring the Social Services Administration of the Department of Human Services to provide, at least one time each year, to each child who is at least 13 years old a copy of the Foster Youth Bill of Rights.
Sponsored by: Sen. Cheryl C. Kagan
Approved By The Governor - Chapter 418 on 05/08/2018
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Maryland 2018 Regular Session
Juvenile Law - Juvenile Diversion Program [SB-669]
[Children and Youth ]
[Crime ]
[Criminal Justice ]
[Public Safety ]
Authorizing a court exercising criminal jurisdiction in a certain case involving a child to suspend the sentence and place the child under the supervision of the Department of Juvenile Services for enrollment in the Juvenile Diversion Program established by the Act; requiring the Department to establish a Juvenile Diversion Program to provide an alternative to imprisonment for a child placed under the supervision of the Department; requiring the Program to provide certain services to each child enrolled; etc.
Sponsored by: Sen. William C. Smith
Hearing 3/06 At 1:00 P.m. on 03/06/2018
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Maryland 2018 Regular Session
Family Law - Protecting the Resources of Children in State Custody [SB-291]
[Family-Related Legislation ]
[Children and Youth ]
[Human Services ]
Requiring the Department of Human Services to take certain actions when serving as a representative payee or fiduciary for certain federal benefits for a child in the Department's custody; requiring the Department to provide certain notice to the child, through the child's attorney, of certain actions taken with respect to certain benefits for the child; etc.
Sponsored by: Sen. Delores G Kelley
Enacted Under Article Ii, Section 17(c) Of The Maryland Constitution - Chapter 816 on 05/26/2018
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Maryland 2018 Regular Session
Juvenile Law - Records - Juveniles Charged as Adults [SB-257]
[Children and Youth ]
[Criminal Justice ]
[Crime ]
Establishing that, pending a determination by a court exercising criminal jurisdiction in a case involving a child whether to transfer its jurisdiction to the juvenile court, provisions of law relating to the confidentiality of juvenile records apply to all police records and court records concerning the child; and repealing provisions of law relating to the expungement of criminal charges transferred to the juvenile court.
Sponsored by: Sen. Delores G Kelley
Unfavorable Report By Judicial Proceedings on 03/05/2018
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Maryland 2018 Regular Session
Criminal Gang Offenses - Penalties, Procedure, and Elements [SB-198]
[Crime ]
[Criminal Justice ]
[Public Safety ]
[Children and Youth ]
Providing that the juvenile court does not have jurisdiction over a certain child alleged to have committed a certain criminal gang offense under certain circumstances; altering penalties for certain criminal gang offenses; providing that certain sentences imposed shall be consecutive to certain sentences; altering the elements of a certain criminal gang offense; requiring certain local jurisdictions to use certain divested assets for certain purposes under certain circumstances; etc.
Sponsored by: Sen. Bob Cassilly
Hearing 1/30 At 1:00 P.m. on 01/30/2018
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Maryland 2018 Regular Session
Public Safety – School Mental Health Services and Mental Disorder Weapon Restraining Order [SB-1263]
[Public Safety ]
[Mental Health ]
[Crime ]
[Healthcare ]
[Children and Youth ]
[Criminal Justice ]
[Education ]
Altering a certain prohibition on making certain threats to commit or cause to be committed a crime of violence; requiring the State Department of Education to develop a certain model policy for the establishment of a threat assessment team by January 1, 2019; authorizing a certain petitioner, under certain circumstances, to file a petition for a certain restraining order alleging that, due to a mental disorder, a certain respondent is a danger to self or the person or property of another; etc.
Sponsored by: Sen. Stephen M. Waugh
Hearing 3/29 At 1:00 P.m. (judicial Proceedings) on 03/29/2018
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Maryland 2018 Regular Session
Juveniles – Reportable Offenses [SB-1147]
[Children and Youth ]
[Crime ]
[Criminal Justice ]
[Education ]
[Public Safety ]
Making it mandatory for a certain local superintendent of schools or school principal to transmit certain information concerning the arrest of a student for a certain reportable offense or offense related to the student's membership in a criminal gang and the disposition of a certain offense as a confidential file to the local superintendent of another school in the State in which the student has enrolled or to which the student has been transferred for certain purposes under certain circumstances; etc.
Sponsored by: Sen. Washington County Senators
Unfavorable Report By Judicial Proceedings on 03/23/2018
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Maryland 2018 Regular Session
Juvenile Justice Coordinating Council [SB-1134]
[Children and Youth ]
[Criminal Justice ]
[Law Enforcement ]
[Public Safety ]
[Crime ]
Establishing the Juvenile Justice Coordinating Council in the Department of Juvenile Services; providing for the composition, chair, and staffing of the Council; prohibiting a member of the Council from receiving certain compensation, but authorizing the reimbursement of certain expenses; specifying the duties of the Council; authorizing the Council to request certain technical assistance; requiring the Council to report its findings and recommendations to the Governor and the General Assembly on or before December 31, 2021; etc.
Sponsored by: Sen. William C. Ferguson
Favorable With Amendments Report By Judicial Proceedings on 04/09/2018
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Maryland 2018 Regular Session
Public Safety - Governor's Office of Crime Control and Prevention and the Maryland Statistical Analysis Center - Reporting Requirements [SB-107]
[Crime ]
[Public Safety ]
[Criminal Justice ]
[Data Privacy ]
Repealing the requirement for the Governor's Office of Crime Control and Prevention to report certain information to certain committees of the General Assembly regarding interrogation rooms; requiring the Office to place on its website in an easily accessible location a filterable data display showing all data collected and a summary relating to the establishment of certain interrogation rooms; requiring the Office to provide a paper copy of certain information under certain circumstances; etc.
Sponsored by: Sen. Judicial Proceedings
Favorable With Amendments Report By Judiciary on 04/09/2018