HARRY HUGHES, Governor

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House Bill No. 886

AN ACT concerning

Assaults by Inmates - Sentencing

FOR the purpose of altering provisions of law that relate to the
imposition of sentence for assaults by inmates on
correctional employees by providing that the sentence be
consecutive to any sentence which was being served and which
remained to be served by the inmate at the time of the
assault, or any sentence which had been imposed but was not
yet being served at the time of sentencing on the assault;
and providing that a sentence for assault by an inmate may
not be suspended.

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,

Article 27 - Crimes and Punishments

Section HE

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1982 Replacement Volume and 1983 Supplement)

SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That the Laws of Maryland read as follows:

Article 27 - Crimes and Punishments

HE.

(A)  Every inmate convicted of assault on an employee of the
Division of Correction, the Patuxent Institution, the Baltimore
City Jail, or any county jail or detention center, regardless of
employment capacity, shall be sentenced [to a sentence to run
consecutive to the sentence under which the inmate was originally
confined and the sentence may not be suspended] FOR THE CRIME OF
ASSAULT UNDER THIS SECTION.

(B)  A SENTENCE IMPOSED UNDER THIS SECTION SHALL RUN
CONSECUTIVELY TO ANY SENTENCE THAT WAS BEING SERVED AT THE TIME
OF THE ASSAULT, OR THAT HAD BEEN IMPOSED BUT WAS NOT YET BEING
SERVED AT THE TIME OF SENTENCING.

(C)  A SENTENCE IMPOSED UNDER THIS SECTION MAY NOT BE
SUSPENDED.

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act shall
take effect July 1, 1984.