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2015 SESSION
HB 1687 Battery; increases penalty when against a school employee engaged in performance of his duties.
Introduced by: C. Matthew Fariss | all patrons ... notes | add to my profiles
SUMMARY AS INTRODUCED:
Battery; school employees; penalty. Increases the penalty for battery against a public or private school employee engaged in the performance of his duties from a Class 1 misdemeanor with a two-day mandatory minimum sentence to a Class 6 felony with a six-month mandatory minimum sentence. The bill also increases the mandatory minimum sentence if the battery is committed by use of a firearm or other weapon prohibited on school property from six months to one year.
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HISTORY
- 01/10/15 House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/14/15 15102371D
- 01/10/15 House: Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
- 02/10/15 House: Left in Courts of Justice