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2020 SPECIAL SESSION I
SB 5032 Assault and battery; penalty.
Introduced by: Scott A. Surovell | all patrons ... notes | add to my profiles
SUMMARY AS PASSED SENATE: (all summaries)
Assault and battery; penalty. Eliminates the mandatory minimum term of confinement for a simple assault or an assault and battery committed against a judge; magistrate; law-enforcement officer; correctional officer; person directly involved in the care, treatment, or supervision of inmates; firefighter; or volunteer firefighter or any emergency medical services personnel. The bill provides that any person charged with such offense where the degree of culpability is slight, a jury or the court may find the accused not guilty of such offense but guilty of a simple assault or assault and battery, punishable as a Class 1 misdemeanor. The bill also provides that before any arrest, indictment, or service of a petition in the case of a juvenile is made for an alleged assault and battery against a law-enforcement officer, such alleged assault and battery shall be investigated by another law-enforcement officer who was not the subject of such alleged assault and battery and the arrest, indictment, or service of a petition shall be approved by the attorney for the Commonwealth.
FULL TEXT
- 08/13/20 Senate: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 08/18/20 20200717D pdf
- 08/18/20 Senate: Committee substitute printed 20200824D-S1 pdf | impact statement
AMENDMENTS
HISTORY
- 08/13/20 Senate: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 08/18/20 20200717D
- 08/13/20 Senate: Referred to Committee on the Judiciary
- 08/18/20 Senate: Reported from Judiciary with substitute (9-Y 5-N)
- 08/18/20 Senate: Committee substitute printed 20200824D-S1
- 08/19/20 Senate: Read first time
- 08/20/20 Senate: Read second time
- 08/20/20 Senate: Reading of substitute waived
- 08/20/20 Senate: Committee substitute agreed to 20200824D-S1
- 08/20/20 Senate: Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute SB5032S1
- 08/26/20 Senate: Read third time and passed Senate (21-Y 15-N)
- 09/17/20 House: Placed on Calendar
- 09/17/20 House: Read first time
- 09/17/20 House: Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
- 09/22/20 House: Passed by indefinitely in Courts of Justice (18-Y 1-N)