Criminal Procedure - Child Victims - Testimony in Child Abuse Cases

HB 293 Criminal Procedure Child Victims Testimony in Child Abuse Cases

Maryland 2025 Regular Session

Criminal Procedure - Child Victims - Testimony in Child Abuse Cases
HB-293


About HB-293

Altering a certain requirement under which a court is authorized to order that the testimony of a child victim be taken outside a courtroom and shown in the courtroom by closed circuit television in certain child abuse cases; requiring the testimony of a child victim taken by closed circuit television within the courthouse be in a setting that reasonably mitigates the likelihood the child victim will suffer emotional distress; etc.

  

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Engrossed 03/13/2025

Introduced 01/09/2025

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Third Reading Passed

03/14/2025

Yeas: 140 | Nays: 0
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History

Referred Judicial Proceedings

03/17/2025

Third Reading Passed (140-0)

03/14/2025

Favorable With Amendments Report By Judiciary

03/13/2025

Favorable With Amendments {713928/1 Adopted

03/13/2025

Second Reading Passed With Amendments

03/13/2025

Hearing 2/06 At 1:00 P.m.

01/17/2025

First Reading Judiciary

01/09/2025