Public Safety - Maryland Code of Military Justice [HB-1139]
[Public Safety ]
[Military ]
[Law Enforcement ]
[Criminal Justice ]
[National Security ]
[Crime ]
Establishing a Maryland Code of Military Justice; providing for jurisdiction and applicability of the Act; providing for authority of certain judge advocates; establishing the rights of certain victims; providing for the apprehension and restraint of certain offenders; providing for certain non-judicial punishment; establishing the jurisdiction for certain courts-martial; providing for the appointment and composition of certain courts-martial; establishing certain pre-trial procedures; etc.
HB-1139: Public Safety - Maryland Code of Military Justice
Sponsored by: Rep. C.T. Wilson
Hearing 3/10 At 1:00 P.m. on 02/10/2020
Public Safety - Maryland Code of Military Justice [HB-1139]
[Public Safety ]
[Military ]
[Law Enforcement ]
[Criminal Justice ]
[National Security ]
[Crime ]
Establishing a Maryland Code of Military Justice; providing for jurisdiction and applicability of the Act; providing for authority of certain judge advocates; establishing the rights of certain victims; providing for the apprehension and restraint of certain offenders; providing for certain non-judicial punishment; establishing the jurisdiction for certain courts-martial; providing for the appointment and composition of certain courts-martial; establishing certain pre-trial procedures; etc.
HB-1139: Public Safety - Maryland Code of Military Justice
Sponsored by: Rep. C.T. Wilson
Hearing 3/10 At 1:00 P.m. on 02/10/2020
Public Service Companies and Contractors - Customer Protection - Personal Information [HB-1065]
[Consumer Protection ]
[Data Privacy ]
[Technology and Innovation ]
[Cybersecurity ]
[Public Safety ]
Prohibiting a public service company and a contractor from sharing, disclosing, or otherwise making accessible to a third party a customer's personal information, subject to a certain exception; prohibiting a public service company and a contractor from selling a customer's personal information; requiring each public service company and contractor to use reasonable security procedures and practices to protect a customer's personal information from certain unauthorized actions; etc.
HB-1065: Public Service Companies and Contractors - Customer Protection - Personal Information
Sponsored by: Rep. Kathleen Dumais
Hearing 3/05 At 1:00 P.m. on 02/11/2020
Public Safety - DNA Collection, Records, Analysis, and Reporting [SB-848]
[Crime ]
[Public Safety ]
[Criminal Justice ]
[Data Privacy ]
Prohibiting the collection of a DNA sample without the consent of a certain individual, subject to certain exceptions; prohibiting a person from performing a search of the statewide DNA data base or statewide DNA repository for the purpose of identification of an offender in connection with a crime for which the offender may be a biological relative of the individual from whom the DNA sample was acquired; etc.
SB-848: Public Safety - DNA Collection, Records, Analysis, and Reporting
Sponsored by: Sen. Charles Sydnor
Hearing 3/10 At 12:00 P.m. on 02/06/2020
Public Safety - Crime Plan and Law Enforcement Councils (Maryland State Crime Plan) [SB-907]
[Crime ]
[Public Safety ]
[Criminal Justice ]
Establishing the Law Enforcement Coordinating Council to prevent and reduce crime by coordinating and focusing State resources and ensuring interagency communication and intelligence-sharing; requiring the Council to prepare a certain comprehensive crime plan for the State or for each region of the State; requiring the Council to meet twice each year; requiring the Governor, or a designee, to attend at least one Council meeting each year; requiring the Council to submit an annual report to the Governor and the General Assembly; etc.
SB-907: Public Safety - Crime Plan and Law Enforcement Councils (Maryland State Crime Plan)
Sponsored by: Sen. William Smith
Vetoed By The Governor (policy) on 05/07/2020
Public Safety - Crime Plan and Law Enforcement Councils (Maryland State Crime Plan) [SB-907]
[Crime ]
[Public Safety ]
[Criminal Justice ]
Establishing the Law Enforcement Coordinating Council to prevent and reduce crime by coordinating and focusing State resources and ensuring interagency communication and intelligence-sharing; requiring the Council to prepare a certain comprehensive crime plan for the State or for each region of the State; requiring the Council to meet twice each year; requiring the Governor, or a designee, to attend at least one Council meeting each year; requiring the Council to submit an annual report to the Governor and the General Assembly; etc.
SB-907: Public Safety - Crime Plan and Law Enforcement Councils (Maryland State Crime Plan)
Sponsored by: Sen. William Smith
Vetoed By The Governor (policy) on 05/07/2020
Criminal Procedure - Medical Emergency - Immunity [SB-849]
[Alcoholic Beverages ]
[Crime ]
[Public Health ]
[Overdose Prevention ]
[Criminal Justice ]
[Public Safety ]
Altering a provision of law to specify that a person who is experiencing a medical emergency, rather than a person who reasonably believes that the person is experiencing a medical emergency, after ingesting or using alcohol or drugs is immune from criminal arrest, charge, or prosecution for a drug or alcohol-related misdemeanor if the evidence for the arrest, charge, or prosecution was obtained solely as a result of the person seeking or receiving medical assistance; etc.
SB-849: Criminal Procedure - Medical Emergency - Immunity
Sponsored by: Sen. William Smith
Hearing 3/05 At 12:00 P.m. on 02/06/2020
Public Information Act – Motor Vehicle Administration – Warrant for Personal Information and Reporting [HB-892]
[Transportation and Motor Vehicles ]
[Data Privacy ]
[Immigration ]
[Law Enforcement ]
[Public Safety ]
Requiring a custodian of records for the Motor Vehicle Administration to deny inspection by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement of the part of a public record that contains personal information unless the custodian is provided with a valid warrant issued by a federal court or a court of this State; and requiring the Motor Vehicle Administration to annually report information on the number of certain requests from a certain U.S. agency to the General Assembly on or before June 1, 2022, and each June 1 thereafter; etc.
HB-892: Public Information Act – Motor Vehicle Administration – Warrant for Personal Information and Reporting
Sponsored by: Rep. Dana Stein
Hearing 2/27 At 1:00 P.m. (environment And Transportation) on 02/05/2020
Division of Parole and Probation - Central Home Detention Unit - Powers [SB-698]
[Crime ]
[Criminal Justice ]
[Public Safety ]
Establishing the Central Home Detention Unit of the Division of Parole and Probation; authorizing the Director of the Division of Parole and Probation to authorize parole and probation employees of the Central Home Detention Unit to exercise certain powers, including executing warrants for the retaking or arrest of certain offenders and executing search warrants; requiring an employee of the Central Home Detention Unit to meet certain minimum qualifications and training of the Maryland Police Training and Standards Commission; etc.
SB-698: Division of Parole and Probation - Central Home Detention Unit - Powers
Sponsored by: Sen. Jeff Waldstreicher
Hearing 3/10 At 12:00 P.m. on 02/06/2020
State Court Administrator - Warrants of Restitution and Writs of Possession - Data Collection and Reporting [HB-797]
[Housing ]
[Data Privacy ]
[Law Enforcement ]
[Public Safety ]
Requiring the State Court Administrator to collect, maintain, provide certain access to, and, on or before July 1, 2021, and quarterly thereafter, make and publish on a website accessible to the public a report on certain information related to certain warrants of restitution and writs of possession.
HB-797: State Court Administrator - Warrants of Restitution and Writs of Possession - Data Collection and Reporting
Sponsored by: Rep. Maggie McIntosh
Hearing 2/19 At 1:00 P.m. on 02/04/2020
Public Information Act – Motor Vehicle Administration – Warrant for Personal Information and Reporting [SB-649]
[Transportation and Motor Vehicles ]
[Immigration ]
[Data Privacy ]
[Law Enforcement ]
[Public Safety ]
Requiring a custodian of records for the Motor Vehicle Administration to deny inspection by United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement of the part of a public record that contains personal information unless the custodian is provided with a valid warrant or valid subpoena issued by a federal court or a court of this State; and requiring the Motor Vehicle Administration to annually report certain information to the General Assembly on or before June 1, 2022, and each June 1 thereafter; etc.
SB-649: Public Information Act – Motor Vehicle Administration – Warrant for Personal Information and Reporting
Sponsored by: Sen. Susan Lee
Motion Special Order Until Next Session (senator Jennings) Adopted on 03/17/2020
Maryland Police Training and Standards Commission - Use of Handcuffs - Body Attachments Policy [SB-563]
[Crime ]
[Law Enforcement ]
[Public Safety ]
[Criminal Justice ]
Requiring the Maryland Police Training and Standards Commission, by October 1, 2020, to develop written policies to provide guidance to law enforcement agencies on the appropriate use of handcuffs when taking a person into custody on a body attachment; and requiring each law enforcement agency, by January 1, 2021, to adopt and implement the written policy developed by the Commission.
SB-563: Maryland Police Training and Standards Commission - Use of Handcuffs - Body Attachments Policy
Sponsored by: Sen. Bryan Simonaire
First Reading Judicial Proceedings on 01/31/2020
Criminal Procedure - Medical Emergency - Immunity [HB-738]
[Alcoholic Beverages ]
[Crime ]
[Public Health ]
[Overdose Prevention ]
[Criminal Justice ]
[Public Safety ]
Altering a provision of law to specify that a person who is experiencing a medical emergency, rather than a person who reasonably believes that the person is experiencing a medical emergency, after ingesting or using alcohol or drugs is immune from criminal arrest, charge, or prosecution for a drug or alcohol-related misdemeanor if the evidence for the arrest, charge, or prosecution was obtained solely as a result of the person seeking or receiving medical assistance; etc.
HB-738: Criminal Procedure - Medical Emergency - Immunity
Sponsored by: Rep. Jazz Lewis
First Reading Judiciary on 01/30/2020
State Court Administrator - Warrants of Restitution and Writs of Possession - Data Collection and Reporting [SB-544]
[Housing ]
[Data Privacy ]
[Law Enforcement ]
[Public Safety ]
Requiring the State Court Administrator to collect, maintain, provide certain access to, and, on or before July 1, 2021, and quarterly thereafter, make and publish on a website accessible to the public a report on certain information related to certain warrants of restitution and writs of possession.
SB-544: State Court Administrator - Warrants of Restitution and Writs of Possession - Data Collection and Reporting
Sponsored by: Sen. Ronald Young
First Reading Judicial Proceedings on 01/30/2020
State Court Administrator - Warrants of Restitution and Writs of Possession - Data Collection and Reporting [SB-544]
[Housing ]
[Data Privacy ]
[Law Enforcement ]
[Public Safety ]
Requiring the State Court Administrator to collect, maintain, provide certain access to, and, on or before July 1, 2021, and quarterly thereafter, make and publish on a website accessible to the public a report on certain information related to certain warrants of restitution and writs of possession.
SB-544: State Court Administrator - Warrants of Restitution and Writs of Possession - Data Collection and Reporting
Sponsored by: Sen. Ronald Young
First Reading Judicial Proceedings on 01/30/2020
Baltimore County - Repossession - Disposition of Property [HB-626]
[Housing ]
[Waste Management / Recycling ]
[Property Tax ]
[Real Estate ]
Establishing that certain chattels and personal property remaining at the time a certain warrant of restitution is executed in Baltimore County are deemed abandoned; establishing that a landlord or a person acting on the landlord's behalf may not be liable for loss or damage to certain abandoned property; and authorizing a landlord to dispose of certain abandoned property by transportation to a licensed landfill or solid waste facility, donation to charity, or any other legal means.
HB-626: Baltimore County - Repossession - Disposition of Property
Sponsored by: Rep. Robin Grammer
Unfavorable Report By Environment And Transportation; Withdrawn on 03/12/2020
Drunk and Drugged Driving - Testing - Warrants [SB-498]
[Alcoholic Beverages ]
[Crime ]
[Public Safety ]
[Transportation and Motor Vehicles ]
[Criminal Justice ]
Establishing an exception to the prohibition on compelling a person to undergo a certain test of the person's breath or blood for a test that is required by a valid warrant.
SB-498: Drunk and Drugged Driving - Testing - Warrants
Sponsored by: Sen. Mary Carozza
Third Reading Passed (47-0) on 03/12/2020
Facial Recognition Privacy Protection Act [SB-476]
[Technology and Innovation ]
[Data Privacy ]
[Law Enforcement ]
[Public Safety ]
[Cybersecurity ]
[Artificial Intelligence ]
[Human Rights ]
Expressing the sense of the General Assembly that facial recognition technology can present certain risks as well as provide a variety of benefits and that safeguards are necessary to allow the use of the technology in ways that benefit society; establishing certain requirements and certain prohibited actions relating to provision of facial recognition services by certain persons; prohibiting certain governmental units from using facial recognition services under certain circumstances; etc.
SB-476: Facial Recognition Privacy Protection Act
Sponsored by: Sen. Charles Sydnor
Hearing 3/11 At 1:00 P.m. on 02/07/2020
Harford County - Service of Process - Detention Center Employees [HB-573]
[Crime ]
[Law Enforcement ]
[Public Safety ]
[Criminal Justice ]
Expanding the authority of a certain individual who is designated to serve criminal process by the administrator of the local detention center in Harford County to serve process within the Circuit Court for Harford County and the District Court of Maryland for Harford County.
HB-573: Harford County - Service of Process - Detention Center Employees
Sponsored by: Rep.
Enacted Under Article Ii, Section 17(c) Of The Maryland Constitution - Chapter 260 on 05/08/2020