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2011 SESSION
HB 2511 Civil immunity; provided for persons acting in defense of property.
Introduced by: William H. Cleaveland | all patrons ... notes | add to my profiles
SUMMARY AS PASSED HOUSE: (all summaries)
Immunity for persons acting in defense of persons. Provides civil immunity for an occupant of a dwelling who injures or kills another while engaged in the defense of his dwelling when (i) the other person has unlawfully entered the dwelling and committed an overt act toward the occupant or another person in the dwelling and (ii) the occupant reasonably believes that he or another person in the dwelling is in imminent danger of bodily injury.
FULL TEXT
- 01/21/11 House: Presented and ordered printed 11104518D pdf
- 01/31/11 House: Committee substitute printed 11104794D-H1 pdf
AMENDMENTS
HISTORY
- 01/21/11 House: Presented and ordered printed 11104518D
- 01/21/11 House: Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
- 01/25/11 House: Assigned Courts sub: #2 Civil
- 01/26/11 House: Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendment(s) (7-Y 3-N)
- 01/31/11 House: Reported from Courts of Justice with substitute (16-Y 6-N)
- 01/31/11 House: Committee substitute printed 11104794D-H1
- 02/02/11 House: Read first time
- 02/03/11 House: Passed by for the day
- 02/04/11 House: Passed by for the day
- 02/06/11 House: Passed by for the day
- 02/06/11 House: Passed by for the day
- 02/07/11 House: Read second time
- 02/07/11 House: Committee substitute agreed to 11104794D-H1
- 02/07/11 House: Amendment by Delegate Morrissey rejected
- 02/07/11 House: Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB2511H1
- 02/08/11 House: Read third time and passed House (73-Y 26-N)
- 02/08/11 House: VOTE: PASSAGE (73-Y 26-N)
- 02/09/11 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed
- 02/09/11 Senate: Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
- 02/11/11 Senate: Assigned Courts sub: Civil
- 02/21/11 Senate: Passed by indefinitely in Courts of Justice (12-Y 3-N)