Maryland Senate Bill 679 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3)
Status: Introduced on February 6 2015 - 25% progression, died in chamber
Action: 2015-03-16 - Unfavorable Report by Judicial Proceedings; Withdrawn
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

Establishing a method for the election of judges to the circuit court on a nonpartisan basis at a general election; providing that a candidate for election as judge of a circuit court may be nominated at a primary election; establishing a deadline for the filing of a certificate of candidacy for a candidate for election as a judge of the circuit court; deeming the office of judge of a circuit court vacant under specified circumstances and that the vacancy be filled in a specified manner; etc.

Election of Circuit Court Judges - Nonpartisan General Election

Sen. Jamin Raskin [D]

Sen. Cheryl Kagan [D]

Sen. Delores Kelley [D]

Date	Chamber	Action
2015-03-16	Senate	Unfavorable Report by Judicial Proceedings; Withdrawn
2015-03-10	Senate	Hearing 3/10 at 1:00 p.m.
2015-02-06	Senate	First Reading Judicial Proceedings

Type	Source
Summary	https://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/SB0679?ys=2015rs
Text	https://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2015RS/bills/sb/sb0679f.pdf
Supplement	https://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2015RS/fnotes/bil_0009/sb0679.pdf
Supplement	https://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2015RS/votes_comm/sb0679_jpr.pdf