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2020 SESSION
HB 1544 Children; strip searches.
Introduced by: Lee J. Carter | all patrons ... notes | add to my profiles
SUMMARY AS ENACTED WITH GOVERNOR'S RECOMMENDATION: (all summaries)
Strip searches of children. Provides that no child under the age of 18 shall be strip searched or subjected to a search of any body cavity by a law-enforcement officer or a jail officer. The bill provides exceptions for (i) children committed to the Department of Juvenile Justice or confined or detained in a secure local facility for juveniles or a jail or other facility for the detention of adults; (ii) persons taken into custody by or remanded to a law-enforcement officer pursuant to a circuit or district court order; and (iii) children in custodial arrest when there is reasonable cause to believe on the part of a law-enforcement officer or jail officer authorizing the search that the child is concealing a weapon.
FULL TEXT
- 01/10/20 House: Presented and ordered printed 20104342D pdf | impact statement
- 02/05/20 House: Committee substitute printed 20107738D-H1 pdf | impact statement
- 02/19/20 Senate: Committee substitute printed 20108762D-S1 pdf | impact statement
- 03/05/20 House: Conference substitute printed 20109446D-H2 pdf | impact statement
- 03/18/20 House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1544ER) pdf | impact statement
- 04/22/20 House: Reenrolled bill text (HB1544ER2) pdf
- 04/22/20 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP1236) pdf
AMENDMENTS
- House subcommittee amendments and substitutes adopted
- Conference amendments
- Governor's recommendation
HISTORY
- 01/10/20 House: Presented and ordered printed 20104342D
- 01/10/20 House: Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
- 01/17/20 House: Assigned Courts sub: Criminal
- 01/22/20 House: Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (7-Y 0-N)
- 02/05/20 House: Committee substitute printed 20107738D-H1
- 02/05/20 House: Reported from Courts of Justice with substitute (22-Y 0-N)
- 02/06/20 House: Read first time
- 02/07/20 House: Read second time
- 02/07/20 House: Committee substitute agreed to 20107738D-H1
- 02/07/20 House: Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB1544H1
- 02/10/20 House: Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (99-Y 0-N)
- 02/10/20 House: VOTE: Block Vote Passage (99-Y 0-N)
- 02/11/20 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed
- 02/11/20 Senate: Referred to Committee on the Judiciary
- 02/19/20 Senate: Reported from Judiciary with substitute (12-Y 0-N)
- 02/19/20 Senate: Committee substitute printed 20108762D-S1
- 02/21/20 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (32-Y 0-N)
- 02/24/20 Senate: Read third time
- 02/24/20 Senate: Reading of substitute waived
- 02/24/20 Senate: Committee substitute agreed to 20108762D-S1
- 02/24/20 Senate: Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute HB1544S1
- 02/24/20 Senate: Passed Senate with substitute (40-Y 0-N)
- 02/26/20 House: Placed on Calendar
- 02/26/20 House: Senate substitute rejected by House 20108762D-S1 (0-Y 96-N)
- 02/26/20 House: VOTE: REJECTED (0-Y 96-N)
- 02/28/20 Senate: Senate insisted on substitute (38-Y 0-N)
- 02/28/20 Senate: Senate requested conference committee
- 03/02/20 House: House acceded to request
- 03/02/20 House: Conferees appointed by House
- 03/02/20 House: Delegates: Carter, Scott, Bell
- 03/03/20 Senate: Conferees appointed by Senate
- 03/03/20 Senate: Senators: Morrissey, Peake, Boysko
- 03/05/20 Conference: Amended by conference committee
- 03/05/20 House: Conference substitute printed 20109446D-H2
- 03/05/20 House: Conference report agreed to by House (98-Y 0-N)
- 03/05/20 House: VOTE: Adoption (98-Y 0-N)
- 03/07/20 Senate: Conference report agreed to by Senate (40-Y 0-N)
- 03/18/20 House: Enrolled
- 03/18/20 House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1544ER)
- 03/18/20 Senate: Signed by President
- 03/19/20 House: Signed by Speaker
- 03/20/20 House: Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 20, 2020
- 03/20/20 Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 11, 2020
- 04/11/20 House: Governor's recommendation received by House
- 04/22/20 House: Placed on Calendar
- 04/22/20 House: House concurred in Governor's recommendation BLOCK VOTE (95-Y 0-N)
- 04/22/20 House: VOTE: (95-Y 0-N)
- 04/22/20 Senate: Senate concurred in Governor's recommendation (40-Y 0-N)
- 04/22/20 Senate: Reconsideration of Governor's recommendation agreed to (38-Y 1-N)
- 04/22/20 Senate: Senate concurred in Governor's recommendation (40-Y 0-N)
- 04/22/20 Governor: Governor's recommendation adopted
- 04/22/20 House: Reenrolled
- 04/22/20 House: Reenrolled bill text (HB1544ER2)
- 04/22/20 House: Signed by Speaker as reenrolled
- 04/22/20 Senate: Signed by President as reenrolled
- 04/22/20 House: Enacted, Chapter 1236 (effective 7/1/20)
- 04/22/20 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP1236)