HARRY HUGHES, Governor

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AN ACT concerning

Victim Impact Statement

FOR the purpose of requiring the Division of Parole and

Probation to prepare presentence investigations in

certain cases; requiring the Division of Parole and
Probation to include a Victim Impact Statement within a
presentence investigation, prior to the sentencing of
certain defendants by the circuit courts; authorizing
a State's Attorney to prepare a Victim Impact Statement
under certain circumstances; requiring the court to
consider the Victim. Impact Statement; providing for the
contents of the Report Statement; and generally
relating to Victim Impact Statements.

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments

Article 41 - Governor - Executive and Administrative

Departments
Section 124(c)
Annotated Code of Maryland
(1978 Replacement Volume and 1981 Supplement)

SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That section(s) of the Annotated Code of Maryland
read(s) as follows:

Article 41 - Governor - Executive and Administrative

Departments

124.

(c) (1) Prior to the sentence by the circuit court of
any county or the Supreme Bench of Baltimore City to the
jurisdiction of the Division of Correction of a defendant
convicted of a felony, OR A MISDEMEANOR WHICH RESULTED IN
SERIOUS PHYSICAL INJURY OR DEATH TO THE VICTIM, or the
referral of any defendant to the Patuxent Institution, a
presentence investigation shall be completed by the Division
of Parole and Probation and considered by the court, unless
the court specifically orders to the contrary in a
particular case.

(2)(I) IF THE DEFENDANT IN COMMITTING THE

FELONY CAUSED, ATTEMPTED OR THREATENED TO CAUSE, OR CREATED
THE RISK OF PHYSICAL, PSYCHOLOGICAL, OR ECONOMIC INJURY TO
THE VICTIM OF THE OFFENSE, THE PRESENTENCE INVESTIGATION

SHALL INCLUDE A VICTIM IMPACT STATEMENT.

(2) (I) THE PRESENTENCE INVESTIGATION SHALL
INCLUDE A VICTIM IMPACT STATEMENT, IF: