Maryland House Bill 255 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Completed Legislative Action
Sponsorship: Strong Partisan Bill (Democrat 49-5)
Status: Passed on April 18 2017 - 100% progression
Action: 2017-04-18 - Approved by the Governor - Chapter 159
Text: Latest bill text (Chaptered) [PDF]

Requiring a specified health care provider to provide a victim of sexual assault with written information describing the laws and policies governing the testing, preservation, and disposal of a sexual assault evidence collection kit; requiring a hospital or child advocacy center to transfer a sexual assault evidence collection kit to a law enforcement agency within 30 days of the exam; prohibiting a law enforcement agency from destroying or disposing of specified evidence of sexual assault within 20 years of its collection; etc.

Criminal Procedure - Sexual Assault Victims' Rights - Disposal of Rape Kit Evidence and Notification

Sen. Shelly Hettleman [D]	Sen. Charles Sydnor [D]	Del. Curtis Anderson [D]	Del. Angela Angel [D]
Del. Vanessa Atterbeary [D]	Del. Susan Aumann [R]	Del. Charles Barkley [D]	Del. Erek Barron [D]
Del. Eric Bromwell [D]	Sen. Benjamin Brooks [D]	Del. Mark Chang [D]	Del. Luke Clippinger [D]
Del. Frank Conaway [D]	Del. Dereck Davis [D]	Del. Kathleen Dumais [D]	Del. Eric Ebersole [D]
Del. Diana Fennell [D]	Del. William Frick [D]	Del. Ana Gutierrez [D]	Sen. Antonio Hayes [D]
Sen. Michael Jackson [D]	Del. Adrienne Jones [D]	Del. Anne Kaiser [D]	Sen. Ariana Kelly [D]
Del. Nicholaus Kipke [R]	Del. Marc Korman [D]	Del. Carol Krimm [D]	Del. Stephen Lafferty [D]
Sen. Clarence Lam [D]	Del. Robbyn Lewis [D]	Del. Brooke Lierman [D]	Del. Eric Luedtke [D]
Sen. Cory McCray [D]	Del. Maggie McIntosh [D]	Del. Christian Miele [R]	Del. Aruna Miller [D]
Del. David Moon [D]	Del. Marice Morales [D]	Del. Dan Morhaim [D]	Del. Joseline Pena-Melnyk [D]
Del. Andrew Platt [D]	Del. Pamela Queen [D]	Del. Samuel Rosenberg [D]	Del. Carlos Sanchez [D]
Del. Theodore Sophocleus [D]	Del. Dana Stein [D]	Del. James Tarlau [D]	Del. Geraldine Valentino-Smith [D]
Sen. Mary Washington [D]	Sen. Chris West [R]	Del. Brett Wilson [R]	Del. C.T. Wilson [D]
Sen. Karen Lewis Young [D]	Del. Pat Young [D]

2017-04-01 - Senate - Senate Floor - Third Reading Passed (45-0) (Y: 45 N: 0 NV: 1 Abs: 1) [PASS]
2017-03-09 - House - House Floor - Third Reading Passed (139-0) (Y: 139 N: 0 NV: 1 Abs: 1) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2017-04-18	House	Approved by the Governor - Chapter 159
2017-04-07	House	Returned Passed
2017-04-07	Senate	Third Reading Passed (45-0)
2017-03-30	Senate	Second Reading Passed
2017-03-30	Senate	Favorable Report Adopted
2017-03-30	Senate	Favorable Report by Judicial Proceedings
2017-03-10	Senate	First Reading Judicial Proceedings
2017-03-09	House	Third Reading Passed (139-0)
2017-03-07	House	Second Reading Passed with Amendments
2017-03-07	House	Favorable with Amendments {882716/1 Report Adopted
2017-03-06	House	Favorable with Amendments Report by Judiciary
2017-02-21	House	Hearing 2/21 at 1:00 p.m.
2017-01-25	House	Hearing canceled
2017-02-07	House	Hearing 2/07 at 1:00 p.m.
2017-01-23	House	First Reading Judiciary

Type	Source
Summary	https://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/HB0255?ys=2017rs
Text	https://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2017RS/bills/hb/hb0255f.pdf
Text	https://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2017RS/bills/hb/hb0255t.pdf
Text	https://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2017RS/Chapters_noln/CH_159_hb0255t.pdf
Amendment	https://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2017RS/amds/bil_0005/hb0255_88271601.pdf
Supplement	https://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2017RS/fnotes/bil_0005/hb0255.pdf
Supplement	https://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2017RS/votes_comm/hb0255_jud.pdf
Supplement	https://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2017RS/votes_comm/hb0255_jpr.pdf
Roll Call	https://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?pid=flrvotepage&tab=subject3&id=hb0255,h-0309&stab=02&ys=2017RS
Roll Call	https://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?pid=flrvotepage&tab=subject3&id=hb0255,s-1208&stab=02&ys=2017RS