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SB 331 Capital murder; killing of a person in a school setting, penalty.

Introduced by: Richard H. Stuart | all patrons    ...    notes | add to my profiles

SUMMARY AS INTRODUCED:

Capital murder of a person in a school setting; penalty. Provides that the willful, deliberate, and premeditated killing of any person by another when such person is upon the property of any child day center, any public, private, or religious preschool, elementary school, middle school, or high school, or any institution of higher education is punishable as capital murder, a Class 1 felony. The bill also provides that any person convicted of such offense shall be sentenced to no less than a mandatory minimum term of confinement for life.

FULL TEXT

• 01/06/20  Senate: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/08/20 20104472D  pdf | impact statement
• 01/27/20  Senate: Committee substitute printed to LIS only 20106791D-S1  pdf

HISTORY

• 01/06/20  Senate: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/08/20 20104472D
• 01/06/20  Senate: Referred to Committee on the Judiciary
• 01/08/20  Senate: Moved from Courts of Justice to Judiciary due to a change of the committee name
• 01/27/20  Senate: Committee substitute printed to LIS only 20106791D-S1
• 01/27/20  Senate: Passed by indefinitely in Judiciary (9-Y 6-N)