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HB 1404 Fire alarms; maliciously activating, penalty.
Introduced by: Mark L. Cole (by request) | all patrons ... notes | add to my profiles
SUMMARY AS PASSED: (all summaries)
Activation of fire alarms; reimbursement of expenses; penalty. Removes the condition that a building must be for public use in order for the Class 1 misdemeanor for maliciously activating a building's fire alarm to apply. The bill authorizes any locality to provide by ordinance that a person convicted of maliciously activating a fire alarm shall be liable for the reasonable expense in responding to such a fire alarm. Current law allows such an ordinance to impose liability for the reasonable expense of an emergency response to an imitation version of a weapon of terrorism, fire bomb, other explosive device, bomb threat, or incitement of a bomb threat. The bill increases the maximum amount that a locality or volunteer emergency medical services agency may recover under such an ordinance from $1,000 to $2,500. This bill is identical to SB 1054.
FULL TEXT
- 09/08/16 House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17100210D pdf | impact statement
- 02/06/17 Senate: Committee substitute printed 17105240D-S1 pdf | impact statement
- 02/13/17 House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1404ER) pdf | impact statement
- 02/20/17 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0098) pdf
HISTORY
- 09/08/16 House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17100210D
- 09/08/16 House: Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
- 01/13/17 House: Assigned Courts sub: Criminal Law
- 01/16/17 House: Subcommittee recommends reporting (11-Y 0-N)
- 01/20/17 House: Reported from Courts of Justice (20-Y 0-N)
- 01/24/17 House: Read first time
- 01/25/17 House: Read second time and engrossed
- 01/26/17 House: Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (99-Y 0-N)
- 01/26/17 House: VOTE: BLOCK VOTE PASSAGE (99-Y 0-N)
- 01/27/17 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed
- 01/27/17 Senate: Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
- 02/06/17 Senate: Reported from Courts of Justice with substitute (15-Y 0-N)
- 02/06/17 Senate: Committee substitute printed 17105240D-S1
- 02/07/17 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
- 02/08/17 Senate: Read third time
- 02/08/17 Senate: Reading of substitute waived
- 02/08/17 Senate: Committee substitute agreed to 17105240D-S1
- 02/08/17 Senate: Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute HB1404S1
- 02/08/17 Senate: Passed Senate with substitute (38-Y 1-N)
- 02/10/17 House: Placed on Calendar
- 02/10/17 House: Senate substitute agreed to by House 17105240D-S1 (93-Y 2-N)
- 02/10/17 House: VOTE: ADOPTION (93-Y 2-N)
- 02/13/17 House: Enrolled
- 02/13/17 House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1404ER)
- 02/13/17 House: Signed by Speaker
- 02/13/17 Senate: Signed by President
- 02/14/17 House: Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on 2/14/17
- 02/14/17 Governor: Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, February 21, 2017
- 02/20/17 Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 98 (effective 7/1/17)
- 02/20/17 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0098)