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2019 SESSION
HB 1947 Elementary or secondary school, private or public; threats to bomb/damage, false info as to danger.
Introduced by: Jeffrey L. Campbell | all patrons ... notes | add to my profiles
SUMMARY AS PASSED HOUSE: (all summaries)
Threats to bomb or damage; false information as to danger; private or public elementary or secondary school; penalty. Provides that for any person who (i) makes and communicates to another by any means any threat to bomb, burn, destroy, or in any manner damage a private or public elementary or secondary school or (ii) communicates to another, by any means, information, knowing the same to be false, as to the existence of any peril of bombing, burning, destruction, or damage to a private or public elementary or secondary school the punishment includes a term of confinement of at least six months, five days of which is a mandatory minimum. Under current law, a person who is 15 or older is guilty of a Class 5 felony and a person who is under 15 is guilty of a Class 1 misdemeanor for such violation.
FULL TEXT
- 01/06/19 House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/19 19103234D pdf | impact statements
- 02/01/19 House: Committee substitute printed 19106188D-H1 pdf | impact statement
AMENDMENTS
- House subcommittee amendments and substitutes adopted
- House committee, floor amendments and substitutes offered
- House amendments not adopted
HISTORY
- 01/06/19 House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/19 19103234D
- 01/06/19 House: Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
- 01/18/19 House: Assigned Courts sub: Subcommittee #1
- 01/21/19 House: Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendment (6-Y 2-N)
- 02/01/19 House: Reported from Courts of Justice with substitute (11-Y 7-N)
- 02/01/19 House: Committee substitute printed 19106188D-H1
- 02/03/19 House: Read first time
- 02/04/19 House: Read second time
- 02/04/19 House: Committee substitute agreed to 19106188D-H1
- 02/04/19 House: Amendment by Delegate Levine rejected
- 02/04/19 House: Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB1947H1
- 02/05/19 House: Read third time and passed House (61-Y 38-N)
- 02/05/19 House: VOTE: PASSAGE (61-Y 38-N)
- 02/06/19 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed
- 02/06/19 Senate: Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
- 02/18/19 Senate: Passed by indefinitely in Courts of Justice (10-Y 4-N)