Maryland House Bill 1215 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: Introduced on February 10 2017 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2017-03-07 - Hearing 3/07 at 1:00 p.m.
Pending: House Judiciary Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

Altering a specified authorization for a court to release a specified defendant on personal recognizance to require that a defendant charged only with one or more misdemeanors be released on personal recognizance; altering the circumstances under which a defendant may not be released on personal recognizance; providing that the amount of a specified bail may not be higher than necessary to achieve specified purposes under specified circumstances; providing that a judicial officer may not set bail for specified reasons; etc.

Criminal Procedure - Pretrial Release

Del. Curtis Anderson [D]	Del. Joseph Vallario [D]	Del. Vanessa Atterbeary [D]	Del. Jason Buckel [R]
Del. Joseph Cluster [R]	Del. Frank Conaway [D]	Del. Cheryl Glenn [D]	Del. Neil Parrott [R]
Del. Brett Wilson [R]

Date	Chamber	Action
2017-03-07	House	Hearing 3/07 at 1:00 p.m.
2017-02-10	House	First Reading Judiciary

Type	Source
Summary	https://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/HB1215?ys=2017rs
Text	https://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2017RS/bills/hb/hb1215f.pdf
Supplement	https://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2017RS/fnotes/bil_0005/hb1215.pdf