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2021 SPECIAL SESSION I
HB 2132 Homicides and assaults and bodily woundings; certain matters not to constitute defenses.
Introduced by: Danica A. Roem | all patrons ... notes | add to my profiles
SUMMARY AS PASSED: (all summaries)
Homicides and assaults and bodily woundings; certain matters not to constitute defenses. Provides that another person's actual or perceived sex, gender, gender identity, or sexual orientation is not in and of itself, or together with an oral solicitation, a defense to any charge of capital murder, murder in the first degree, murder in the second degree, voluntary manslaughter, or assault and bodily wounding-related crimes and is not provocation negating or excluding malice as an element of murder.
FULL TEXT
- 01/12/21 House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/13/21 21102483D pdf | impact statements
- 02/03/21 House: Committee substitute printed 21104105D-H1 pdf | impact statements
- 02/17/21 Senate: Committee substitute printed 21200404D-S1 pdf | impact statements
- 03/09/21 House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB2132ER) pdf | impact statement
- 03/31/21 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0460) pdf
AMENDMENTS
- House subcommittee amendments and substitutes offered
- House subcommittee amendments and substitutes adopted
- Senate committee, floor amendments and substitutes offered
HISTORY
- 01/12/21 House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/13/21 21102483D
- 01/12/21 House: Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
- 01/28/21 House: Assigned Courts sub: Criminal
- 01/29/21 House: Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (6-Y 2-N)
- 02/03/21 House: Reported from Courts of Justice with substitute (13-Y 8-N)
- 02/03/21 House: Committee substitute printed 21104105D-H1
- 02/03/21 House: Read first time
- 02/04/21 House: Read second time
- 02/04/21 House: Committee substitute agreed to 21104105D-H1
- 02/04/21 House: Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB2132H1
- 02/05/21 House: Read third time and passed House (58-Y 42-N)
- 02/05/21 House: VOTE: Passage (58-Y 42-N)
- 02/05/21 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed
- 02/05/21 Senate: Referred to Committee on the Judiciary
- 02/05/21 Senate: Continued to 2021 Sp. Sess. 1 in Judiciary (14-Y 0-N)
- 02/17/21 Senate: Reported from Judiciary with substitute (9-Y 5-N 1-A)
- 02/17/21 Senate: Committee substitute printed 21200404D-S1
- 02/17/21 Senate: Rereferred to Finance and Appropriations
- 02/22/21 Senate: Reported from Finance and Appropriations (14-Y 1-N)
- 02/24/21 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N)
- 02/25/21 Senate: Read third time
- 02/25/21 Senate: Reading of substitute waived
- 02/25/21 Senate: Committee substitute agreed to 21200404D-S1
- 02/25/21 Senate: Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute HB2132S1
- 02/25/21 Senate: Passed Senate with substitute (23-Y 15-N)
- 02/25/21 House: Placed on Calendar
- 02/25/21 House: Senate substitute agreed to by House 21200404D-S1 (58-Y 39-N)
- 02/25/21 House: VOTE: Adoption (58-Y 39-N)
- 03/09/21 House: Enrolled
- 03/09/21 House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB2132ER)
- 03/09/21 Senate: Signed by President
- 03/11/21 House: Signed by Speaker
- 03/15/21 House: Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 15, 2021
- 03/15/21 Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 31, 2021
- 03/31/21 Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 460 (effective 7/1/21)
- 03/31/21 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0460)