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2007 SESSION
HB 2348 Triggerman rule; redefinition thereof.
Introduced by: C. Todd Gilbert | all patrons ... notes | add to my profiles
SUMMARY AS INTRODUCED:
Redefinition of the triggerman rule. Redefines the "triggerman rule," which currently provides that only the actual perpetrator of a capital murder is eligible for the death penalty and that accessories and principals in the second degree can be punished only as if guilty of first degree murder. This bill allows principals in the second degree and accessories before the fact to be charged as principals in the first degree in the cases of murder for hire, murder involving a continuing criminal enterprise, and terrorism. This bill allows, in all other cases of capital murder, principal in the second degree to be tried as a principal in the first degree if he had the same intent to kill as the principal in the first degree. The bill allows an accessory before the fact to be tried as a principal in the first degree if he ordered or directed the willful, deliberate, and premeditated killing. This bill is identical to SB 1288.
FULL TEXT
- 01/09/07 House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/07 077012134 pdf | impact statement
- 01/23/07 House: Committee substitute printed 077815306-H1 pdf | impact statement
- 02/21/07 House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB2348ER) pdf | impact statements
AMENDMENTS
HISTORY
- 01/09/07 House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/07 077012134
- 01/09/07 House: Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
- 01/16/07 House: Assigned Courts sub: Criminal Law
- 01/22/07 House: Reported from Courts of Justice with substitute (18-Y 1-N)
- 01/23/07 House: Committee substitute printed 077815306-H1
- 01/24/07 House: Read first time
- 01/25/07 House: Read second time
- 01/25/07 House: Committee substitute agreed to 077815306-H1
- 01/25/07 House: Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB2348H1
- 01/26/07 House: Read third time and passed House (83-Y 14-N)
- 01/26/07 House: VOTE: PASSAGE (83-Y 14-N)
- 01/26/07 House: Communicated to Senate
- 01/29/07 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed
- 01/29/07 Senate: Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
- 02/12/07 Senate: Reported from Courts of Justice (10-Y 4-N)
- 02/13/07 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
- 02/13/07 Senate: VOTE: (40-Y 0-N)
- 02/14/07 Senate: Read third time
- 02/14/07 Senate: Passed Senate (29-Y 11-N)
- 02/14/07 Senate: VOTE: (29-Y 11-N)
- 02/14/07 Senate: Reconsideration of Senate passage agreed to by Senate (39-Y 0-N)
- 02/14/07 Senate: VOTE: (39-Y 0-N)
- 02/14/07 Senate: Passed Senate (27-Y 13-N)
- 02/14/07 Senate: VOTE: (27-Y 13-N)
- 02/21/07 House: Enrolled
- 02/21/07 House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB2348ER)
- 02/21/07 House: Signed by Speaker
- 02/22/07 Senate: Signed by President
- 03/26/07 Governor: Vetoed by Governor
- 04/03/07 House: Placed on Calendar
- 04/04/07 House: Motion to override Governor's veto agreed to (79-Y 21-N)
- 04/04/07 House: VOTE: OVERRIDE GOVERNOR'S VETO (79-Y 21-N)
- 04/04/07 Senate: Motion to pass in enrolled form rejected (24-Y 14-N)
- 04/04/07 Senate: Requires 2/3 affirmative votes for passage
- 04/04/07 House: House sustained Governor's veto