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2023 SESSION
HB 1590 Telephone, digital pager, or other device; causing to ring or signal with intent to annoy, penalty.
Introduced by: Richard C. "Rip" Sullivan, Jr. | all patrons ... notes | add to my profiles
SUMMARY AS PASSED HOUSE: (all summaries)
Causing a telephone or other device to signal with intent to annoy; emergency communications; penalty. Modernizes the statute prohibiting harassment of emergency personnel in the performance of their duties by causing a telephone to ring to include a prohibition on causing any other device to signal with the intent to annoy, harass, hinder, or delay such emergency personnel. This bill is identical to SB 1034.
FULL TEXT
- 01/06/23 House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/23 23100630D pdf | impact statement
- 01/23/23 House: Committee substitute printed 23104900D-H1 pdf | impact statement
- 02/16/23 House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1590ER) pdf | impact statement
- 03/22/23 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0201) pdf
AMENDMENTS
- House subcommittee amendments and substitutes offered
- House subcommittee amendments and substitutes adopted
HISTORY
- 01/06/23 House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/23 23100630D
- 01/06/23 House: Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
- 01/17/23 House: Assigned Courts sub: Subcommittee #1
- 01/18/23 House: Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (8-Y 0-N)
- 01/23/23 House: Reported from Courts of Justice with substitute (19-Y 0-N)
- 01/23/23 House: Committee substitute printed 23104900D-H1
- 01/25/23 House: Read first time
- 01/26/23 House: Read second time
- 01/26/23 House: Committee substitute agreed to 23104900D-H1
- 01/26/23 House: Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB1590H1
- 01/27/23 House: Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (98-Y 0-N)
- 01/27/23 House: VOTE: Block Vote Passage (98-Y 0-N)
- 01/30/23 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed
- 01/30/23 Senate: Referred to Committee on the Judiciary
- 02/08/23 Senate: Reported from Judiciary (11-Y 0-N)
- 02/10/23 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N)
- 02/13/23 Senate: Read third time
- 02/13/23 Senate: Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N)
- 02/16/23 House: Enrolled
- 02/16/23 House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1590ER)
- 02/16/23 House: Signed by Speaker
- 02/16/23 Senate: Signed by President
- 03/02/23 House: Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 2, 2023
- 03/02/23 Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 27, 2023
- 03/22/23 Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 201 (effective 7/1/23)
- 03/22/23 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0201)