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2008 SESSION
HB 933 Triggerman rule; redefinition thereof.
Introduced by: C. Todd Gilbert | all patrons ... notes | add to my profiles
SUMMARY AS PASSED: (all summaries)
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, a 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 560.
FULL TEXT
- 01/08/08 House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/08 086206516 pdf | impact statement
- 02/14/08 Senate: Committee substitute printed 081559516-S1 pdf | impact statement
- 02/29/08 House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB933ER) pdf | impact statements
AMENDMENTS
HISTORY
- 01/08/08 House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/08 086206516
- 01/08/08 House: Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
- 01/16/08 House: Assigned Courts sub: Criminal
- 02/04/08 House: Reported from Courts of Justice (18-Y 4-N)
- 02/06/08 House: Read first time
- 02/07/08 House: Read second time
- 02/07/08 House: Pending question ordered
- 02/07/08 House: Engrossed by House
- 02/08/08 House: Read third time and passed House (77-Y 21-N)
- 02/08/08 House: VOTE: --- PASSAGE (77-Y 21-N)
- 02/08/08 House: Communicated to Senate
- 02/11/08 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed
- 02/11/08 Senate: Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
- 02/13/08 Senate: Reported from Courts of Justice with substitute (8-Y 7-N)
- 02/14/08 Senate: Committee substitute printed 081559516-S1
- 02/15/08 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 1-N)
- 02/18/08 Senate: Read third time
- 02/18/08 Senate: Reading of substitute waived
- 02/18/08 Senate: Committee substitute agreed to 081559516-S1
- 02/18/08 Senate: Passed by for the day
- 02/19/08 Senate: Read third time
- 02/19/08 Senate: Passed by for the day
- 02/20/08 Senate: Read third time
- 02/20/08 Senate: Passed by for the day
- 02/21/08 Senate: Read third time
- 02/21/08 Senate: Passed by for the day
- 02/22/08 Senate: Passed by for the day
- 02/25/08 Senate: Read third time
- 02/25/08 Senate: Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute HB933S1
- 02/25/08 Senate: Passed Senate with substitute (24-Y 16-N)
- 02/26/08 House: Placed on Calendar
- 02/27/08 House: Senate substitute agreed to by House 081559516-S1 (80-Y 16-N)
- 02/27/08 House: VOTE: --- ADOPTION (80-Y 16-N)
- 02/29/08 House: Enrolled
- 02/29/08 House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB933ER)
- 02/29/08 House: Signed by Speaker
- 03/03/08 Senate: Signed by President
- 03/05/08 Governor: Vetoed by Governor
- 03/06/08 House: Governor's veto overridden (76-Y 24-N)
- 03/06/08 House: VOTE: --- OVERRIDE GOVERNOR'S VETO (76-Y 24-N)
- 03/06/08 House: Motion to reconsider override of Governor's veto agreed to
- 03/06/08 House: Governor's veto overridden (77-Y 23-N)
- 03/06/08 House: VOTE: (77-Y 23-N)
- 03/07/08 Senate: Motion to pass in enrolled form rejected (24-Y 16-N)
- 03/07/08 Senate: Senate sustained Governor's veto