PARRIS N. GLENDENING, Governor

Ch. 9

enforcement agencies to make and maintain certain records relating to domestic
violence; requiring the record to be made identifiable by a certain code and
reported to the Department of State Police; requiring the Department of State
Police to receive, accept, and incorporate civil protective orders in the Maryland
Interagency Law Enforcement System; requiring the Department of State Police to
cooperate with certain persons for certain purposes; authorizing judges and law
enforcement agencies and officers to access the system for a certain purpose certain
purposes; establishing certain responsibilities of the clerks of the courts and local
law enforcement agencies; specifying that a confidential communication between
spouses during their marriage may be disclosed if the confidential communication
occurs during the commission of a crime or pertains to a crime committed by one
spouse against the other; altering the circumstances under which the spouse of a
person on trial for a crime may be compelled to testify; prohibiting a petitioner in a
proceeding to seek relief from abuse from being required to pay certain filing fees
or costs; prohibiting a court from granting a mutual protective order under certain
circumstances; altering certain penalties a certain penalty for violation of certain
provisions of a protective order certain civil protection orders; requiring an officer to
arrest certain persons if there is probable cause to believe a person is in violation of
certain court orders; requiring one half of certain fines to be paid to the Comptroller
of the Treasury and deposited in a certain fund; establishing the Victims of
Domestic Violence Fund; specifying the purpose of the Fund; providing for the
administration, investment, and auditing of the Fund; providing for expenditures
and disbursement from the Fund; requiring the Department of Human Resources
to make grants from the Fund; defining certain terms a certain term; and generally
relating to domestic violence.

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,
Article 27 - Crimes and Punishments
Section 594B(d)
Annotated Code of Maryland
(1992 Replacement Volume and 1994 Supplement)

BY repealing

Article 27—Crimes and Punishments

Section 772

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1992 Replacement Volume and 1994 Supplement)

BY adding to

Article 27—Crimes and Punishments

Section 772

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1992 Replacement Volume and 1994 Supplement)

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,
Article 88B - Department of State Police

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