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2024 SESSION
HB 161 Individuals experiencing or reporting overdoses while incarcerated; disciplinary procedures.
Introduced by: Holly M. Seibold | all patrons ... notes | add to my profiles
SUMMARY AS PASSED HOUSE: (all summaries)
Arrest, prosecution, and disciplinary or administrative procedures and penalties for individuals experiencing or reporting overdoses while incarcerated. Provides that no individual incarcerated in a local, regional, or state correctional facility shall be subject to arrest or prosecution for or disciplinary or administrative procedures or penalties related to the unlawful purchase, possession, or consumption of alcohol; possession of a controlled substance; possession of marijuana; procurement, sale, secretion, or possession of any chemical compound not lawfully received; intoxication in public; or possession of controlled paraphernalia if such individual seeks or obtains emergency medical attention for himself or another individual experiencing an overdose or is experiencing an overdose and another individual seeks or obtains emergency medical attention for him. The bill also provides that no correctional officer, deputy sheriff, or jail officer acting in good faith shall be found liable for false arrest if it is later determined that the person arrested was immune from prosecution or disciplinary procedures or penalties.
FULL TEXT
- 01/02/24 House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24100848D pdf
- 01/26/24 House: Committee substitute printed 24106108D-H1 pdf | impact statement
- 03/04/24 House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB161ER) pdf | impact statement
AMENDMENTS
- House subcommittee amendments and substitutes offered
- House subcommittee amendments and substitutes adopted
- Governor's veto explanation
HISTORY
- 01/02/24 House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24100848D
- 01/02/24 House: Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
- 01/23/24 House: Assigned Courts sub: Criminal
- 01/24/24 House: Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (7-Y 1-N)
- 01/24/24 House: Subcommittee recommends referring to Committee on Appropriations
- 01/26/24 House: Committee substitute printed 24106108D-H1
- 01/26/24 House: Assigned App. sub: Transportation & Public Safety
- 01/26/24 House: Reported from Courts of Justice with substitute (13-Y 8-N)
- 01/26/24 House: Referred to Committee on Appropriations
- 01/31/24 House: Subcommittee recommends reporting (5-Y 3-N)
- 02/02/24 House: Reported from Appropriations (13-Y 9-N)
- 02/06/24 House: Read first time
- 02/07/24 House: Read second time
- 02/07/24 House: Committee substitute agreed to 24106108D-H1
- 02/07/24 House: Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB161H1
- 02/08/24 House: Read third time and passed House (63-Y 34-N)
- 02/08/24 House: VOTE: Passage (63-Y 34-N)
- 02/09/24 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed
- 02/09/24 Senate: Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
- 02/21/24 Senate: Reported from Courts of Justice (9-Y 6-N)
- 02/23/24 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N)
- 02/26/24 Senate: Read third time
- 02/26/24 Senate: Passed by for the day
- 02/27/24 Senate: Read third time
- 02/27/24 Senate: Passed Senate (21-Y 18-N)
- 03/04/24 House: Enrolled
- 03/04/24 House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB161ER)
- 03/04/24 House: Signed by Speaker
- 03/07/24 Senate: Signed by President
- 03/11/24 House: Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 11, 2024
- 03/11/24 Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024
- 03/20/24 Governor: Vetoed by Governor
- 04/17/24 House: House sustained Governor's veto