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2023 SESSION
HB 1572 False emergency communication to emergency personnel; false information, penalties, report.
Introduced by: Wendell S. Walker | all patrons ... notes | add to my profiles
SUMMARY AS PASSED HOUSE: (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 SB 1291.
FULL TEXT
- 01/06/23 House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/23 23102628D pdf | impact statement
- 02/03/23 House: Committee substitute printed 23105570D-H1 pdf | impact statement
- 02/24/23 House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1572ER) pdf | impact statement
- 03/16/23 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0022) pdf
AMENDMENTS
- House subcommittee amendments and substitutes offered
- House subcommittee amendments and substitutes adopted
HISTORY
- 01/06/23 House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/23 23102628D
- 01/06/23 House: Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
- 01/24/23 House: Assigned Courts sub: Subcommittee #1
- 01/25/23 House: Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (7-Y 1-N)
- 02/03/23 House: Reported from Courts of Justice with substitute (17-Y 3-N)
- 02/03/23 House: Committee substitute printed 23105570D-H1
- 02/05/23 House: Read first time
- 02/06/23 House: Read second time
- 02/06/23 House: Committee substitute agreed to 23105570D-H1
- 02/06/23 House: Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB1572H1
- 02/07/23 House: Read third time and passed House (92-Y 6-N)
- 02/07/23 House: VOTE: Passage (92-Y 6-N)
- 02/08/23 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed
- 02/08/23 Senate: Referred to Committee on the Judiciary
- 02/15/23 Senate: Reported from Judiciary (14-Y 0-N)
- 02/15/23 Senate: Rereferred to Finance and Appropriations
- 02/16/23 Senate: Reported from Finance and Appropriations (16-Y 0-N)
- 02/20/23 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
- 02/21/23 Senate: Read third time
- 02/21/23 Senate: Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N)
- 02/24/23 House: Enrolled
- 02/24/23 House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1572ER)
- 02/24/23 House: Signed by Speaker
- 02/25/23 Senate: Signed by President
- 03/02/23 House: 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 22 (effective 7/1/23)
- 03/16/23 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0022)