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Votes at a glance: House Judiciary committee advances multiple bills including property, parole and victim-privacy measures
Summary
The House Judiciary Committee on April 8 approved a package of bills — including measures on transfer-on-death deeds, parole commission procedures, victim identity protections and law-enforcement body armor — and recessed after completing its roll calls.
The House Judiciary Committee completed a packed April 8 vote session, approving a series of bills by roll call and voice votes before adjourning. Highlights below list the bills taken up in committee and the recorded committee tallies.
- Senate Bill 305 (qualifying non-profit organizations incarcerated individual training and re-entry grant fund extension): committee recorded a 13-4-0-1-1 tally; motion carried.
- Senate Bill 331 (retired law-enforcement officer handgun permits expiration/renewal): Delegate Embry explained his vote; committee passed the bill (tally 18-0-0-0-1).
- Senate Bill 651 (real property transfer-on-death deed): Sponsor explained the measure creates a recorded transfer-on-death deed to allow property owners to name beneficiaries without counsel; committee passed the bill unanimously (18-0-0-0-1).
- Senate Bill 823 (correctional services — Maryland Parole Commission membership and procedures): Committee adopted amendments to conform with House Bill 16 on nominating-panel membership, appointment timeframes, professional prerequisites for hearing examiners, a cap on examiners formerly employed in corrections or law enforcement, expansion of certain case types to include non-cumulative 15+ year sentences, and a modified vote threshold for life sentences; passed 13-5-0-0-1.
- Senate Bill 933 (temporary appointments, Commission on Judicial Disabilities): passed by roll call (18-0-0-0-1).
- House Bill 450 (protection of identity of victims of sexual assault or stalking; conforming amendment to Senate Bill 294): committee adopted a conforming amendment and passed the bill (18-0-0-0-1).
- Senate Bill 516 (law enforcement protective body armor requirements and reporting): passed (18-0-0-0-1).
- Senate Bill 865 (workgroup on the affordability of private passenger automobile insurance): passed (17-1-0-0-1).
- Senate Bill 729 (real property access to counsel and eviction-program expansion): committee discussed inclusion of mobile-home residents; the bill later passed when taken up after recess (tally recorded in the transcript as '12 for 0 2 1').
- Senate Bill 346 (Civil Actions Violation of Constitutional Rights, 'No Kings' Act): committee debated and adopted an amendment restoring supervisor-liability language and passed the bill by roll call (12-6-0-0-1). The amendment and related debate focused on who qualifies as a 'covered officer' and whether supervisors (not agencies) could be sued when they 'cause or allow' a constitutional deprivation.
The committee recessed during the session and returned to complete several items; the meeting adjourned after the final roll calls.
