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2005 SESSION
HB 1616 Shoplifting and employee theft; provisions for civil recovery.
Introduced by: William R. Janis | all patrons ... notes | add to my profiles
SUMMARY AS PASSED: (all summaries)
Civil action for shoplifting and employee theft. Conforms the civil recovery provisions for shoplifting with the criminal shoplifting provisions by (i) basing civil recovery on retail value of the goods rather than the merchant's actual wholesale cost, and (ii) making the civil recovery provision applicable when an offender appropriates goods or cash to another. This bill is identical to SB 1209.
FULL TEXT
- 12/16/04 House: Prefiled & ordered printed; offered 01/12/05 055389348 pdf
- 02/07/05 House: Printed as engrossed 055389348-E pdf
- 03/01/05 House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1616ER) pdf
- 03/24/05 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0142) pdf
AMENDMENTS
HISTORY
- 12/16/04 House: Prefiled & ordered printed; offered 01/12/05 055389348
- 12/16/04 House: Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
- 01/14/05 House: Assigned to C. J. sub-committee: Civil Law
- 02/04/05 House: Reported from C. J. with amendments (19-Y 0-N)
- 02/05/05 House: Read first time
- 02/07/05 House: Read second time
- 02/07/05 House: Committee amendments agreed to
- 02/07/05 House: Engrossed by House as amended HB1616E
- 02/07/05 House: Printed as engrossed 055389348-E
- 02/08/05 House: Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (98-Y 0-N)
- 02/08/05 House: VOTE: BLOCK VOTE PASSAGE (98-Y 0-N)
- 02/08/05 House: Communicated to Senate
- 02/09/05 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed
- 02/09/05 Senate: Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
- 02/14/05 Senate: Reported from Courts of Justice (8-Y 0-N)
- 02/15/05 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N)
- 02/15/05 Senate: VOTE: CONST. RDG. DISPENSED R (39-Y 0-N)
- 02/16/05 Senate: Read third time
- 02/16/05 Senate: Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N)
- 02/16/05 Senate: VOTE: PASSAGE R (40-Y 0-N)
- 03/01/05 House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1616ER)
- 03/01/05 House: Enrolled
- 03/03/05 House: Signed by Speaker
- 03/04/05 Senate: Signed by President
- 03/20/05 Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 142 (effective 7/1/05)
- 03/24/05 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0142)