PARRIS N. GLENDENING, Governor

Ch. 110

(ii) Shall deposit all remaining revenues, after the distribution under
subsection (a)(1) of this section, in the general funds of Washington County to underwrite
the Washington County tourism budget and, when established, the Washington County
Convention Bureau.

(c) An authorized county shall make the distributions required under this section
between the 15th day and the 30th day of each calendar month.

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act shall take effect
July 1, 1995.

Approved April 11, 1995.

AN ACT concerning

CHAPTER 110
(Senate Bill 340)

Death Penalty Reform

FOR the purpose of establishing that a warrant of execution shall be stayed during the
direct review process and certain parts of the State postconviction review process;
establishing that a warrant of execution must designate a certain period within
which the sentence must be executed; requiring a certain judge to lift a stay of a
warrant of execution or issue a new warrant of execution at a certain time;
permitting a circuit court to stay a warrant of execution upon the filing of a certain
petition; requiring a circuit court to lift a certain stay or provide certain notice if the
court finds an inmate to be competent; requiring a circuit court to stay a warrant of
execution if the court finds an inmate to be incompetent; permitting the Court of
Appeals to stay a warrant of execution under certain circumstances; clarifying that
a certain requirement governing notice of intent to seek a sentence of death and
notice of intent to seek a sentence of life without the possibility of parole shall apply
to any trial date so as to permit the State to comply with the requirement by filing
notice at least a certain number of days before a trial date even if the State did not
file notice at least a certain number of days before a previously scheduled trial date;
requiring a State's Attorney to file a copy of a notice of intent to seek the death
penalty or a withdrawal of any such notice with the Clerk of the Court of Appeals;
providing that the validity of a notice of intent to seek a sentence of death that is
served on a defendant in a timely manner shall in no way be affected by the State's
Attorney's failure to file a copy of the death notice in a timely manner with the
Clerk of the Court of Appeals; requiring that a death penalty sentencing proceeding
be conducted before a judge rather than a jury if the defendant was convicted after
a trial before the judge sitting without a jury; providing that this requirement does
not apply if review of the original sentence of death has resulted in a remand for
resentencing; altering the number of petitions for postconviction relief, arising out
of each trial, that a person is permitted to file; permitting a circuit court to reopen
a postconviction proceeding under certain circumstances; providing that the

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