Maryland Senate Bill 10 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 1)
Status: Introduced on January 11 2017 - 25% progression, died in chamber
Action: 2017-03-17 - Unfavorable Report by Judicial Proceedings
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

Prohibiting a court in any child custody or visitation proceeding from considering, in and of itself, a parent's past deployment or possible future deployment in determining the best interest of a child except under specified circumstances; authorizing a party or witness who is subject to deployment to provide testimony and present evidence by electronic means or by telephone under specified circumstances; authorizing the court to grant caretaking or decision-making authority to a nonparent under specified circumstances; etc.

Child Custody and Visitation - Deployed Parents

Sen. Bob Cassilly [R]

Date	Chamber	Action
2017-03-17	Senate	Unfavorable Report by Judicial Proceedings
2017-01-24	Senate	Hearing 1/24 at 1:00 p.m.
2017-01-11	Senate	First Reading Judicial Proceedings
2016-07-05	Senate	Pre-filed

Type	Source
Summary	https://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/SB0010?ys=2017rs
Text	https://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2017RS/bills/sb/sb0010f.pdf
Supplement	https://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2017RS/fnotes/bil_0000/sb0010.pdf
Supplement	https://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2017RS/votes_comm/sb0010_jpr.pdf