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2023 SESSION
SB 1291 False emergency communication to emergency personnel; false information, penalties, report.
Introduced by: R. Creigh Deeds | all patrons ... notes | add to my profiles
SUMMARY AS PASSED SENATE: (all summaries)
False emergency communication to emergency personnel; penalties. Provides that it is a Class 1 misdemeanor for any person to knowingly report, or cause another to report in reliance on intentionally false information provided by such person, a false emergency communication to any emergency personnel that results in an emergency response.
The bill also provides that it is a Class 6 felony if such false emergency communication results in an emergency response and any person suffers a serious bodily injury as a direct and proximate result of the false emergency communication and a Class 5 felony if any person is killed as a direct and proximate result of the false emergency communication.
The bill authorizes any locality to provide by ordinance that a person convicted of such false emergency communication shall be liable for the reasonable expense in responding to such false emergency communication. This bill is identical to HB 1572.
FULL TEXT
- 01/10/23 Senate: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/23 23103560D pdf | impact statements
- 01/30/23 Senate: Committee substitute printed 23105682D-S1 pdf | impact statements
- 02/21/23 Senate: Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB1291ER) pdf | impact statement
- 03/16/23 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0023) pdf
AMENDMENTS
HISTORY
- 01/10/23 Senate: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/23 23103560D
- 01/10/23 Senate: Referred to Committee on the Judiciary
- 01/30/23 Senate: Reported from Judiciary with substitute (13-Y 2-N)
- 01/30/23 Senate: Committee substitute printed 23105682D-S1
- 01/30/23 Senate: Rereferred to Finance and Appropriations
- 02/02/23 Senate: Reported from Finance and Appropriations (16-Y 0-N)
- 02/03/23 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N)
- 02/06/23 Senate: Read second time
- 02/06/23 Senate: Reading of substitute waived
- 02/06/23 Senate: Committee substitute agreed to 23105682D-S1
- 02/06/23 Senate: Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute SB1291S1
- 02/07/23 Senate: Read third time and passed Senate (40-Y 0-N)
- 02/10/23 House: Placed on Calendar
- 02/10/23 House: Read first time
- 02/10/23 House: Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
- 02/13/23 House: Reported from Courts of Justice (16-Y 3-N)
- 02/15/23 House: Read second time
- 02/16/23 House: Read third time
- 02/16/23 House: Passed House (88-Y 8-N)
- 02/16/23 House: VOTE: Passage (88-Y 8-N)
- 02/21/23 Senate: Enrolled
- 02/21/23 Senate: Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB1291ER)
- 02/21/23 House: Signed by Speaker
- 02/24/23 Senate: Signed by President
- 03/02/23 Senate: Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on March 2, 2023
- 03/02/23 Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 27, 2023
- 03/16/23 Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 23 (effective 7/1/23)
- 03/16/23 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0023)