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2023 SESSION
HB 2079 Assault and battery against a family or household member; prior conviction, second offense sentence.
Introduced by: Kathleen Murphy | all patrons ... notes | add to my profiles
SUMMARY AS INTRODUCED:
Assault and battery against a family or household member; prior conviction; second offense. Provides that upon a conviction for assault and battery against a family or household member where it is alleged in the warrant, petition, information, or indictment on which a person is convicted that such person has been previously convicted of an offense that occurred within a period of 10 years of the instant offense against a family or household member of (i) assault and battery against a family or household member, (ii) malicious wounding or unlawful wounding, (iii) aggravated malicious wounding, (iv) malicious bodily injury by means of a substance, (v) strangulation, or (vi) an offense under the law of any other jurisdiction that has the same elements of any of the offenses listed in clauses (i) through (v), such person is guilty of a Class 1 misdemeanor, and the sentence of such person shall include a mandatory minimum term of confinement of 30 days.
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HISTORY
- 01/10/23 House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/23 23100691D
- 01/10/23 House: Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
- 01/21/23 House: Assigned Courts sub: Subcommittee #1
- 01/23/23 House: Subcommittee recommends striking from docket (8-Y 0-N)
- 02/07/23 House: Left in Courts of Justice