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2021 SPECIAL SESSION I
HB 2194 Communicating threats of death or bodily injury to a person with intent to intimidate; penalty.
Introduced by: James A. "Jay" Leftwich | all patrons ... notes | add to my profiles
SUMMARY AS PASSED HOUSE: (all summaries)
Communicating threats of death or bodily injury to a person with intent to intimidate; penalties. Provides that any person 18 years of age or older who communicates a threat in writing, including an electronically transmitted communication producing a visual or electronic message, to another to kill or to do serious bodily injury to any other person and makes such threat with the intent to (i) intimidate a civilian population at large; (ii) influence the conduct or activities of a government, including the government of the United States, a state, or a locality, through intimidation; or (iii) compel the emergency evacuation, or avoidance, of any place of assembly, any building or other structure, or any means of mass transportation is guilty of a Class 5 felony. The bill provides that any person younger than 18 years of age who commits such offense is guilty of a Class 1 misdemeanor. This bill is identical to SB 1113.
FULL TEXT
- 01/13/21 House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/13/21 21101561D pdf | impact statements
- 02/03/21 House: Committee substitute printed 21104392D-H1 pdf | impact statements
- 02/22/21 House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB2194ER) pdf | impact statement
- 03/11/21 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0083) pdf
AMENDMENTS
- House subcommittee amendments and substitutes adopted
- House committee, floor amendments and substitutes offered
HISTORY
- 01/13/21 House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/13/21 21101561D
- 01/13/21 House: Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
- 01/29/21 House: Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (8-Y 0-N)
- 02/03/21 House: Reported from Courts of Justice with substitute (21-Y 0-N)
- 02/03/21 House: Committee substitute printed 21104392D-H1
- 02/03/21 House: Read first time
- 02/04/21 House: Read second time
- 02/04/21 House: Committee substitute agreed to 21104392D-H1
- 02/04/21 House: Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB2194H1
- 02/05/21 House: Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (100-Y 0-N)
- 02/05/21 House: VOTE: Block Vote Passage (100-Y 0-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)
- 02/10/21 Senate: Reported from Judiciary (13-Y 2-N)
- 02/10/21 Senate: Rereferred to Finance and Appropriations
- 02/16/21 Senate: Reported from Finance and Appropriations (13-Y 0-N)
- 02/16/21 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (37-Y 0-N)
- 02/17/21 Senate: Read third time
- 02/17/21 Senate: Passed Senate (34-Y 3-N)
- 02/22/21 House: Enrolled
- 02/22/21 House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB2194ER)
- 02/22/21 Senate: Signed by President
- 02/24/21 House: Signed by Speaker
- 02/25/21 House: Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on February 25, 2021
- 02/25/21 Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 31, 2021
- 03/11/21 Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 83 (effective 7/1/21)
- 03/11/21 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0083)