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2023 SESSION

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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

• Senate committee, floor amendments and substitutes offered

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)