HOUSE BILL 6

CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT

Unofficial Copy 2002 Regular Session
D4 21r0988
HB 764/01 - JUD CF 21r0989

(PRE-FILED)

By: Chairman, Judiciary Committee (Maryland Judicial Conference) and

Delegates Taylor, Arnick, Busch, Conway, Dewberry, Doory, Harrison,
Hixson, Howard, Hurson, Kopp, McIntosh, Menes, Montague, Owings,
Rawlings, Rosenberg, and Wood

Requested: November 15, 2001

Introduced and read first time: January 9, 2002

Assigned to: Judiciary

Committee Report: Favorable with amendments

House action: Adopted

Read second time: February 26, 2002

CHAPTER 587

1 AN ACT concerning

2 District Court Commissioners - Powers and Duties

3 FOR the purpose of proposing an amendment to the Maryland Constitution to expand

4 the powers and duties of District Court commissioners to include the issuance of

5 certain civil interim civil orders for protection peace orders and civil interim

6 protective orders within the jurisdiction of the District Court under certain

7 circumstances; and submitting this amendment to the qualified voters of the

8 State of Maryland for their adoption or rejection.

9 BY proposing an amendment to the Constitution of Maryland

10 Article IV - Judiciary Department

11 Section 41G

12 SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF

13 MARYLAND, (Three-fifths of all the members elected to each of the two Houses

14 concurring), That it be proposed that the Constitution of Maryland read as follows:

15 Article IV - Judiciary Department

16 41G.

17 (A) (1) There shall be district court commissioners in the number and with

18 the qualifications and compensation prescribed by law.