Criminal Procedure - Medical Emergency - Immunity [HB-212]
[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-212: Criminal Procedure - Medical Emergency - Immunity
Sponsored by: Rep. Jon Cardin
Hearing 1/27 At 2:30 P.m. on 01/15/2021
Criminal Procedure - Search Warrants - Requirements [HB-241]
[Crime ]
[Criminal Justice ]
[Public Safety ]
Repealing a provision of law authorizing an application for a search warrant to contain a request authorizing the executing law enforcement officer to enter certain premises or a thing to be searched without giving notice of the officer's authority or purpose under certain circumstances; authorizing an application for a search warrant to contain a request to authorize a law enforcement officer to enter certain premises or a thing to be searched during the time period between sunset and sunrise under certain circumstances; etc.
Correctional Services - Warrant Apprehension Unit - Transfer [SB-118]
[Crime ]
[Public Safety ]
[Criminal Justice ]
[Law Enforcement ]
Transferring the Warrant Apprehension Unit of the Division of Parole and Probation in the Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services to the Intelligence and Investigative Division in the Department.
SB-118: Correctional Services - Warrant Apprehension Unit - Transfer
Sponsored by: Sen.
Hearing 1/14 At 11:00 A.m. on 12/28/2021
State and Local Government - Participation in Federal Immigration Enforcement [SB-88]
[Immigration ]
[Law Enforcement ]
[Human Rights ]
[Public Safety ]
Providing that an official of State or local government is immune from criminal and civil liability for refusing to provide information to the federal government or another state for a certain purpose; authorizing the State to indemnify a certain official for certain costs or judgments; expressing the intent of the General Assembly to maintain community trust in Maryland governmental operations and law enforcement efforts by clarifying the parameters of State and local participation in federal immigration enforcement efforts; etc.
SB-88: State and Local Government - Participation in Federal Immigration Enforcement
Sponsored by: Sen. William Smith
Hearing 1/27 At 11:00 A.m. on 12/28/2021
State and Local Government - Participation in Federal Immigration Enforcement [HB-304]
[Immigration ]
[Law Enforcement ]
[Public Safety ]
Providing that an official of State or local government is immune from criminal and civil liability for refusing to provide information to the federal government or another state for a certain purpose; authorizing the State to indemnify a certain official for certain costs or judgments; expressing the intent of the General Assembly to maintain community trust in Maryland governmental operations and law enforcement efforts by clarifying the parameters of State and local participation in federal immigration enforcement efforts; etc.
HB-304: State and Local Government - Participation in Federal Immigration Enforcement
Sponsored by: Rep. Wanika Fisher
Hearing Canceled on 01/26/2021
No–Knock Warrants – Elimination (Duncan’s Act) [HB-188]
[Crime ]
[Criminal Justice ]
[Public Safety ]
Repealing a provision of law authorizing an application for a search warrant to contain a request authorizing the executing law enforcement officer to enter a building, apartment, premises, place, or thing to be searched without giving notice of the officer's authority or purpose under certain circumstances; applying the Act prospectively; etc.
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.
SB-861: Juvenile Law - Witnesses - Body Attachment
Sponsored by: Sen. William Ferguson
Senators Brochin, Ramirez, And Ready on 04/09/2018
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.
SB-816: Criminal Law - Death Penalty - Law Enforcement Officers and First Responders
Sponsored by: Sen. Johnny Salling
Hearing 2/22 At 1:00 P.m. on 02/22/2018
Criminal Procedure - Pretrial Release Services Program - Victim Notification [SB-766]
[Crime ]
[Criminal Justice ]
[Public Safety ]
Requiring a judicial officer to consider the recommendation of a certain pretrial release services program in making a certain determination; requiring a court or District Court commissioner to consider including certain no contact provisions as a condition of pretrial release if a certain pretrial release services program has made a certain request; requiring a certain pretrial release services program to notify the court on receipt of certain information; etc.
Public Safety - SWAT Team Activation and Deployment - Reports [SB-705]
[Crime ]
[Public Safety ]
[Criminal Justice ]
Requiring the Maryland Police Training and Standards Commission, in consultation with the Governor's Office of Crime Control and Prevention, to develop a standardized format that certain law enforcement agencies shall use in reporting certain data relating to the activation and deployment of certain SWAT teams to the Office and to certain local officials; requiring the Office to submit and publish a certain report; etc.
SB-705: Public Safety - SWAT Team Activation and Deployment - Reports
Sponsored by: Sen. Katherine Klausmeier
Unfavorable Report By Judicial Proceedings on 03/15/2018
Public Safety - Maryland Electronic Telecommunications Enforcement Resource System - Body Attachments [SB-442]
[Public Safety ]
[Law Enforcement ]
[Technology and Innovation ]
[Cybersecurity ]
[Criminal Justice ]
Requiring the Department of State Police to cooperate with certain entities to incorporate body attachments into the Maryland Electronic Telecommunications Enforcement Resource System (METERS); establishing that clerks of the courts and appropriate local law enforcement agencies are responsible for certain activities related to body attachments entered in METERS; authorizing a judge or law enforcement agency or officer to access METERS to determine the status of certain outstanding body attachments; etc.
SB-442: Public Safety - Maryland Electronic Telecommunications Enforcement Resource System - Body Attachments
Sponsored by: Sen. Wayne Norman
Hearing 3/21 At 1:00 P.m. on 03/21/2018
Criminal Procedure - Charging Procedures and Documents - Citation [SB-248]
[Crime ]
[Criminal Justice ]
[Public Safety ]
Modifying the circumstances under which a police officer is required to charge by citation; modifying the categories of offenses for which a police officer is authorized to charge by citation; and modifying the circumstances under which a police officer may charge a defendant by citation.
SB-248: Criminal Procedure - Charging Procedures and Documents - Citation
Sponsored by: Sen. Delores Kelley
Hearing 2/01 At 2:00 P.m. on 02/01/2018
Criminal Procedure - Expungement - Expansion (Maryland Record Expungement Designed to Enhance Employment (REDEEM) Act of 2018) [SB-1212]
[Crime ]
[Criminal Justice ]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
Authorizing a person who is the subject of a certain warrant to file a certain petition for expungement; providing that a person who, on or after October 1, 2018, has been charged with the commission of a certain crime, has been charged with a certain civil offense or infraction, or is the subject of a certain warrant is entitled to automatic expungement of certain records under certain circumstances; specifying that certain dispositions are eligible for automatic expungement at certain times; etc.
SB-1212: Criminal Procedure - Expungement - Expansion (Maryland Record Expungement Designed to Enhance Employment (REDEEM) Act of 2018)
Sponsored by: Sen. Delores Kelley
Hearing 3/14 At 1:00 P.m. on 03/14/2018
You have voted SB-1212: Criminal Procedure - Expungement - Expansion (Maryland Record Expungement Designed to Enhance Employment (REDEEM) Act of 2018).
Criminal Procedure - Extradition - Duty of Local Governments (Sanctuary for Citizens Act) [SB-1210]
[Crime ]
[Criminal Justice ]
[Public Safety ]
Establishing that it is the duty of the governing body of every county and municipal corporation in the State to have arrested and delivered up to the executive authority of any federal agency any person for whom there is a valid judicial, civil, or criminal federal warrant and who is found in the State; and requiring counties and qualifying municipalities to comply with certain provisions of law in order to receive certain aid from the State.
SB-1210: Criminal Procedure - Extradition - Duty of Local Governments (Sanctuary for Citizens Act)
Sponsored by: Sen. Bob Cassilly
First Reading Senate Rules on 02/26/2018
Civil Actions - Body Attachment - Procedures [SB-1050]
[Law Enforcement ]
[Public Safety ]
[Criminal Justice ]
Requiring a judicial officer to give a certain individual taken into custody on a body attachment the opportunity to make a complete declaration on a certain form; requiring a judicial officer to release an individual on personal recognizance without any additional conditions, advise the individual of certain matters, and provide a copy of a certain declaration to a certain judgment creditor; authorizing a judicial officer to release an individual on personal recognizance under certain circumstances; etc.
SB-1050: Civil Actions - Body Attachment - Procedures
Sponsored by: Sen. Susan Lee
Hearing 3/29 At 1:00 P.m. on 03/29/2018
Human Services – State Public Assistance Eligibility – Arrest Warrant [SB-1034]
[Human Services ]
[Poverty ]
[Public Safety ]
[Crime ]
[Law Enforcement ]
Prohibiting an individual from being eligible for public assistance funded by the State under certain programs during a month in which the individual is the subject of an arrest warrant.
SB-1034: Human Services – State Public Assistance Eligibility – Arrest Warrant
Sponsored by: Sen. Bob Cassilly
Hearing 3/15 At 1:00 P.m. on 03/15/2018
Real Property – Body Attachments – Debt Related to Residential Tenancy [HB-942]
[Housing ]
[Real Estate ]
[Law Enforcement ]
[Poverty ]
[Public Safety ]
[Crime ]
[Criminal Justice ]
Establishing that, in the case of a debt related to a residential tenancy where the court has entered a judgment in favor of the landlord, an individual arrested on a certain body attachment and taken before the court or a judicial officer of the District Court is entitled to be represented by counsel, including, if the individual is indigent, the Public Defender or a designee of the Public Defender; etc.
HB-942: Real Property – Body Attachments – Debt Related to Residential Tenancy
Sponsored by: Rep. Kathleen Dumais
Hearing 2/27 At 1:00 P.m. (environment And Transportation) on 02/27/2018
Public Safety - SWAT Team Activation and Deployment - Reports [HB-920]
[Crime ]
[Public Safety ]
[Criminal Justice ]
Requiring the Maryland Police Training and Standards Commission, in consultation with the Governor's Office of Crime Control and Prevention, to develop a standardized format that certain law enforcement agencies shall use in reporting certain data relating to the activation and deployment of certain SWAT teams to the Office and certain local officials; requiring the Governor's Office of Crime Control and Prevention to provide and publish a certain report; etc.
HB-920: Public Safety - SWAT Team Activation and Deployment - Reports
Sponsored by: Rep. Kathy Afzali
Unfavorable Report By Judiciary on 02/26/2018
Criminal Law - Death Penalty - Murder of Specific Individuals or Mass Murder [HB-887]
[Crime ]
[Criminal Justice ]
[Public Safety ]
Providing that a person who is convicted of murder in the first degree may be sentenced to death under certain circumstances; providing that the murder of a law enforcement officer, a correctional officer, a certain first responder, or a certain witness, or a certain mass murder, under certain circumstances, is an aggravating circumstance 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.
HB-887: Criminal Law - Death Penalty - Murder of Specific Individuals or Mass Murder
Sponsored by: Rep. Kathy Afzali
Unfavorable Report By Judiciary on 03/15/2018