S.B. 516

VETOES

of confinement to pay the full amount all or a certain portion of the applicable filing
fee; establishing certain exceptions; prohibiting the initiation of certain events until
the filing fee is paid in full; requiring a prisoner who files a civil action to submit to
the Clerk certain information relating to the prisoner's account; requiring the Clerk
to issue to a prisoner a consent form containing certain information relating to the
prisoner's account; requiring the Clerk to forward a copy of the consent-form to the
institution or agency that has custody of the prisoner; requiring the prisoner's
custodian, under certain conditions, to, remit to the Clerk certain funds from the
prisoner's account; authorizing a custodian, under certain circumstances, to act
aside or freeze certain funds deposited into the prisoner's account; authorizing a
court, under certain circumstances, to dismiss a civil action filed under this Act;
prohibiting a prisoner from maintaining a civil action under certain circumstances;
requiring a prisoner who files a civil action to attach certain information to the
initial complaint; requiring allowing a court, prior to a certain event, to review a
prisoner's complaint to identify any cognizable claims; establishing the effect of a
dismissal of a prisoner's civil action; authorizing a court to take certain action if a
prisoner has filed a certain number of frivolous complaints; requiring a certain
finding to be reflected in the docket entries of a civil action filed under this Act;
requiring a court to order a defendant to reimburse a prisoner for court costs and
filing fees under certain circumstances;—providing for the disposition of
compensatory and punitive damages awarded to a prisoner in connection with a civil
action filed under this Act; requiring a prisoner's custodian to notify, in a certain
manner, a victim of the prisoner and a recipient of a child support obligation for
which the prisoner is responsible of certain information; authorizing a court to
rescind any or all of a prisoner's diminution or confinement credits under certain
circumstances; establishing that punitive damages awarded in a civil action filed
under this Act may not exceed a certain amount; establishing a transaction fee for
payments forwarded to the Clerk from a prisoner's account providing certain
sanctions for filing a certain number of frivolous actions, providing that a court is not
required to hold a hearing under certain circumstances; providing for the application
of this Act; defining certain terms; and generally relating to civil actions filed by
prisoners.

BY adding to

Article - Courts and Judicial Proceedings

Section 5-501 through 5-511 5-507 to be under the new subtitle "Subtitle 5.

Prisoner Litigation Act"
Annotated Code of Maryland
(1995 Replacement Volume and 1996 Supplement)

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

Article - Courts and Judicial Proceedings

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