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2020 SPECIAL SESSION I
HB 5069 Law-enforcement officers; prohibition on the use of neck restraints, exception, penalties.
Introduced by: Jennifer Carroll Foy | all patrons ... notes | add to my profiles
SUMMARY AS PASSED: (all summaries)
Law-enforcement officers; prohibition on the use of neck restraints. Prohibits a law-enforcement officer from using a neck restraint in the performance of his official duties and provides for disciplinary sanctions on an officer who uses a neck restraint. The bill provides an exception from the prohibition if a neck restraint is immediately necessary to protect the officer or another person. The bill defines "neck restraint" as the use of any body part or object to attempt to control or disable a person by applying pressure against the neck, including the trachea or carotid artery, with the purpose, intent, or effect of controlling or restricting the person's movement or restricting the person's blood flow or breathing, including chokeholds, carotid restraints, and lateral vascular neck restraints.
FULL TEXT
- 08/18/20 House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 08/18/20 20200533D pdf | impact statements
- 08/26/20 House: Committee substitute printed 20201037D-H1 pdf | impact statements
- 09/16/20 Senate: Committee substitute printed 20201185D-S1 pdf | impact statement
- 10/14/20 House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB5069ER) pdf | impact statement
- 10/28/20 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0035) pdf
AMENDMENTS
- House committee, floor amendments and substitutes offered
- Senate committee, floor amendments and substitutes offered
HISTORY
- 08/18/20 House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 08/18/20 20200533D
- 08/18/20 House: Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
- 08/26/20 House: Reported from Courts of Justice with substitute (13-Y 7-N)
- 08/26/20 House: Committee substitute printed 20201037D-H1
- 08/26/20 House: Referred to Committee on Appropriations
- 08/31/20 House: Reported from Appropriations (13-Y 9-N)
- 09/02/20 House: Read first time
- 09/03/20 House: Read second time
- 09/03/20 House: Committee substitute agreed to 20201037D-H1
- 09/03/20 House: Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB5069H1
- 09/04/20 House: Read third time and passed House (55-Y 43-N)
- 09/04/20 House: VOTE: Passage (55-Y 43-N)
- 09/09/20 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed
- 09/09/20 Senate: Referred to Committee on the Judiciary
- 09/16/20 Senate: Reported from Judiciary with substitute (9-Y 4-N)
- 09/16/20 Senate: Committee substitute printed 20201185D-S1
- 09/16/20 Senate: Rereferred to Finance and Appropriations
- 09/24/20 Senate: Reported from Finance and Appropriations (11-Y 5-N)
- 09/25/20 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (36-Y 0-N)
- 10/01/20 Senate: Passed by temporarily
- 10/01/20 Senate: Read third time
- 10/01/20 Senate: Passed by for the day
- 10/02/20 Senate: Read third time
- 10/02/20 Senate: Reading of substitute waived
- 10/02/20 Senate: Committee substitute agreed to 20201185D-S1
- 10/02/20 Senate: Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute HB5069S1
- 10/02/20 Senate: Passed Senate with substitute (20-Y 18-N)
- 10/02/20 Senate: Reconsideration of passage agreed to by Senate (39-Y 0-N)
- 10/02/20 Senate: Passed Senate with substitute (22-Y 17-N)
- 10/02/20 Senate: Reconsideration of passage agreed to by Senate (39-Y 0-N)
- 10/02/20 Senate: Passed Senate with substitute (21-Y 18-N)
- 10/07/20 House: Placed on Calendar
- 10/07/20 House: Senate substitute agreed to by House 20201185D-S1 (60-Y 36-N)
- 10/07/20 House: VOTE: Adoption (60-Y 36-N)
- 10/14/20 House: Enrolled
- 10/14/20 House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB5069ER)
- 10/14/20 House: Signed by Speaker
- 10/14/20 Senate: Signed by President
- 10/21/20 House: Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on October 21, 2020
- 10/21/20 Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., October 28, 2020
- 10/28/20 Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 35 (effective 3/1/21)
- 10/28/20 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0035)