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SB672 - Vehicle Laws - Automated Enforcement Citations and Notices - Mailing Addresses
Nick Charles
Last updated 5 months ago
1 Co-Sponsor
Requiring that citations and notices issued as a result of automated enforcement under the Maryland Vehicle Law be sent to the current mailing address on file with the Administration or if a mailing address is not available, the current residential address on file with the Administration.
STATUS
Passed
SB668 - Department of Human Services - Children in Foster Care - Luggage
Nick Charles, Charles E. Sydnor, Chris West
Last updated 5 months ago
10 Co-Sponsors
Requiring the Department of Human Services to establish and maintain a decentralized supply of new luggage to be used to transport the personal belongings of a child in foster care; requiring the Department to provide new luggage to a child who is entering foster care, moving from one foster care placement to another, or exiting foster care; prohibiting the Department from using disposable bags or trash bags to transport items for a child in foster care; and requiring the Department to maintain certain records.
STATUS
Passed
SB666 - Maryland Commission on Civil Rights - Monetary Relief
Nick Charles
Last updated 5 months ago
1 Co-Sponsor
Altering certain maximum amounts of monetary relief the Maryland Commission on Civil Rights is authorized to award if the Commission finds that a respondent has engaged in a discriminatory act under provisions of law regarding public accommodations and persons licensed or regulated by the Maryland Department of Labor; requiring, by July 1, 2025, and by each July 1 for the next 4 years, the Commission to submit a report to the Governor and the General Assembly on the impact of the Act on persons against whom complaints have been filed; etc.
STATUS
Passed
SB663 - Child Custody - Rebuttable Presumption of Joint Custody
Nick Charles
Last updated 8 months ago
1 Co-Sponsor
Establishing a rebuttable presumption in certain child custody proceedings that joint legal custody and joint physical custody for approximately equal periods of time are in the best interests of a child and establishing factors a court may consider when determining the best interests of the child; authorizing the court to award sole custody based on a preponderance of the evidence that a joint custody arrangement is not in the best interests of the child; requiring the Court to enter certain factors on the record; etc.
STATUS
Introduced
SB662 - Criminal Procedure - Evidence - Admissibility of Creative Expression
Nick Charles
Last updated 8 months ago
1 Co-Sponsor
Providing that the creative expression of a criminal defendant or juvenile respondent is not admissible against the defendant or respondent unless the court makes certain findings; and defining "creative expression" as the expression or application of creativity or imagination in the production or arrangement of forms, sounds, words, movements, or symbols.
STATUS
Introduced
SB669 - State Government - Attorney General - Reports
Nick Charles
Last updated 5 months ago
1 Co-Sponsor
Altering certain reporting requirements for the Attorney General; and requiring the Attorney General to publish certain documents on the Attorney General's website.
STATUS
Passed
SB665 - Maryland Condominium Act - Amendments to the Declaration
Nick Charles
Last updated 5 months ago
1 Co-Sponsor
Reducing the percentage of unit owners listed on the current roster of a condominium needed to consent to an amendment of a condominium's declaration if none of the units of the condominium are owned by a developer of the condominium from 80% to 66 2/3%.
STATUS
Passed
SB671 - Foreclosure Proceedings - Residential Mortgagors and Grantors - Access to Counsel
Nick Charles
Last updated 8 months ago
1 Co-Sponsor
Requiring that individuals have access to legal representation in certain foreclosure proceedings; establishing the Access to Counsel in Foreclosure Proceedings Program to organize and direct services and resources to provide covered individuals with access to certain legal representation; establishing a Special Fund to provide funding to fully implement access to legal representation in foreclosure proceedings; requiring the Maryland Legal Services Corporation to provide access to legal representation under the Program; etc.
STATUS
Introduced
SB664 - Real Property - Land Installment Contracts - Requirements and Vendor Duties and Limitations
Nick Charles
Last updated 8 months ago
1 Co-Sponsor
Requiring the vendor to provide a purchaser under a land installment contract with the results of a title search for the property at or before the time the purchaser signs the contract; requiring the inclusion of certain notice, terms, and recitals in a land installment contract formed in the State; altering, from 40% to 20%, the percentage of the original cash price of a land installment contract that the purchaser must pay before the purchaser may demand a grant of the deed to the property to the purchaser; etc.
STATUS
Introduced
SB670 - Child Custody and Visitation - Best Interest of the Child
Nick Charles
Last updated 8 months ago
1 Co-Sponsor
Requiring the court, in determining the appropriate allocation of custody or visitation between the parties that is in the best interest of the child, to consider the ability of each of the parties to meet the child's developmental needs, the relations between the child, the parties, the siblings and other relatives, the ability of each party to meet the child's day-to-day needs and certain other factors; and requiring the court to articulate certain findings of fact on the record.
STATUS
Introduced
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