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MDSB1037Intro
25%
Authorizing certain police officers to testify as expert witnesses on the ultimate issue of impairment in cases involving driving a vehicle or operating a vessel while impaired by drugs; establishing a certain presumption in cases involving driving a...
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2024-02-07
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee
MDSB424Intro
25%
Providing that during the trial of a criminal case in which a defendant is charged with an assault in the second degree, a certain statement is not excluded by the hearsay rule if the statement is offered against a party that has engaged in, directed...
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2024-02-06
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee
MDSB471Intro
25%
Altering the composition of the Criminal Injuries Compensation Board; altering certain duties, powers, and procedures for the Board to make awards to victims of crime; altering the powers and duties of certain employees; altering the amount and types...
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2024-02-06
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee
MDHB912Intro
25%
Requiring the Governor's Office of Crime Prevention, Youth, and Victim Services to establish a Safe Neighborhoods Pilot Program to provide doorbell cameras or security systems with doorbell cameras to residents of high-crime areas; requiring the Offi...
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2024-02-06
To House Judiciary Committee
MDHB942Intro
25%
Establishing the Crime Solvers Reward Fund as a special, nonlapsing fund in the Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services to provide grants to law enforcement agencies and county reward programs to be used as rewards offered to the public...
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2024-02-06
To House Judiciary Committee
MDSB1016Intro
25%
Requiring health care providers who are authorized to prescribe to double the amount of each drug prescribed for a child if a parent of the child presents the prescriber with a court order of joint legal custody with a right of medical decision makin...
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2024-02-06
To Senate Finance Committee
MDHB330Intro
25%
Altering the conditions under which a lawsuit is considered a strategic lawsuit against public participation (SLAPP suit); altering the conditions under which a defendant in a SLAPP suit is not civilly liable for certain communications; establishing ...
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2024-02-05
To House Judiciary Committee
MDHB392Intro
25%
Providing that it is lawful for a person to intercept a wire, oral, or electronic communication if the person is working as a fair housing tester for a fair housing testing program operated by the federal government, the State, a local government, or...
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2024-02-05
To House Judiciary Committee
MDHB851Intro
25%
Establishing the Maryland Reparations Commission to develop and administer a program to provide compensatory benefits to the descendants of individuals enslaved in the State; providing that any individual whose ancestors were enslaved in the State is...
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2024-02-02
To House Health and Government Operations Committee
MDSB759Intro
25%
Requiring a court to rule on petitions to appoint a guardian of the person of a disabled person in order to seek transfer or discharge of a disabled person from a hospital within 10 days; and requiring that hearings to appoint a guardian of the perso...
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2024-02-01
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee
MDHB405Intro
25%
Specifying certain qualifications and training necessary for an individual to be appointed or approved by a court as a custody evaluator; specifying that certain expert evidence is admissible in certain child custody and visitation proceedings under ...
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2024-01-31
To House Judiciary Committee
MDSB453Intro
25%
Requiring a peace officer, when the peace officer receives a petition for emergency evaluation for an individual, to transport the emergency evaluee to a nearby emergency facility, rather than the nearest emergency facility; authorizing a psychiatric...
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2024-01-31
To Senate Finance Committee
MDHB644Intro
25%
Requiring a local department of social services or a law enforcement agency to provide a certain notice to a parent or caretaker of a child at a certain time during an investigation of suspected child abuse or neglect; and excluding evidence obtained...
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2024-01-31
To House Judiciary Committee
MDSB568Intro
25%
Altering the conditions under which a lawsuit is considered a strategic lawsuit against public participation (SLAPP suit); altering the conditions under which a defendant in a SLAPP suit is not civilly liable for certain communications; establishing ...
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2024-01-31
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee
MDHB87Intro
25%
Providing that a person who is convicted of first-degree murder may be sentenced to death under certain circumstances; and establishing certain procedures relating to custody, warrant of execution, incompetency, method of execution, witnesses, certif...
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2024-01-30
To House Judiciary Committee
MDSB396Intro
25%
Repealing a certain prohibition against a law enforcement officer initiating a stop or a search of a motor vehicle based solely on the odor of burnt or unburnt cannabis; and repealing a certain provision of law rendering inadmissible certain evidenc...
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2024-01-30
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee
MDSB389Intro
25%
Authorizing an individual who is at least 60 years old and has been imprisoned for at least 20 years to file a motion to reduce the duration of the individual's sentence; requiring the court to conduct a hearing on a motion to reduce the duration of ...
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2024-01-30
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee
MDHB572Intro
25%
Providing that during the trial of a criminal case in which a defendant is charged with an assault in the second degree, a certain statement is not excluded by the hearsay rule if the statement is offered against a party that has engaged in, directed...
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2024-01-30
To House Judiciary Committee
MDHB724Intro
25%
Authorizing an individual who is serving a term of confinement to petition a court to reduce the sentence if the individual has served at least 20 years of the individuals term of confinement and at least 3 years have passed since the court decided a...
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2024-01-30
To House Judiciary Committee
MDSB365Intro
25%
Specifying certain qualifications and training necessary for an individual to be appointed or approved by a court as a custody evaluator; and specifying that certain expert evidence is admissible in certain child custody and visitation proceedings un...
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2024-01-18
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee
MDHB303Intro
25%
Prohibiting persistent aerial surveillance by a unit, an agency, or a political subdivision of the State to gather evidence or other information in a criminal investigation, subject to certain exceptions; and defining "persistent aerial surveillance"...
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2024-01-16
To House Judiciary Committee
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