Ch. 546

LAWS OF MARYLAND

CHAPTER 546

(Senate Bill 46)

AN ACT concerning

Paternity Proceedings - Blood Tests

FOR the purpose of providing that the laboratory report of a
blood test in a paternity proceeding is admissible in
evidence without the presence of a doctor or technician from
the laboratory that prepared the report under certain
circumstances; providing that when the laboratory report is
admitted in evidence, a doctor or technician from the
laboratory that prepared the report is subject to cross
examination under certain circumstances; providing that
certain laboratories shall be deemed to have consented to
provide a doctor or technician to testify at the trial of a
paternity proceeding when given a certain notice; and
generally relating to the admission in evidence of the
laboratory report of a blood test in paternity proceedings.

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,

Article - Family Law

Section 5-1029

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1984 Volume and 1988 Supplement)

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

Article - Family Law

5-1029.

(a)  On the motion of a party to the proceeding or on its
own motion, the court shall order the mother, child, and alleged
father to submit to blood tests to determine whether the alleged
father can be excluded as being the father of the child.

(b)  The blood tests shall be made in a laboratory selected
by the court from a list of laboratories provided by the
Administration. A LABORATORY ON THE LIST SHALL BE DEEMED TO HAVE
CONSENTED TO PROVIDE A DOCTOR OR TECHNICIAN TO TESTIFY AT TRIAL

WHEN GIVEN NOTICE IN ACCORDANCE WITH SUBSECTION (E)(3)(II) OF
THIS SECTION.

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