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2020 SPECIAL SESSION I
HB 5029 Law-enforcement officer; failure to intervene in an unlawful use of excessive force, penalties.
Introduced by: Delores L. McQuinn | all patrons ... notes | add to my profiles
SUMMARY AS PASSED: (all summaries)
Law-enforcement officer; failure to intervene in an excessive use of force; penalties. Requires that any law-enforcement officer who while in the performance of his official duties witnesses another law-enforcement officer engaging or attempting to engage in the use of excessive force, defined in the bill, against another person shall intervene, when such intervention is objectively reasonable and possible, to end the use of excessive force or attempted use of excessive force, or to prevent the further use of excessive force. The bill also requires a law-enforcement officer to render aid, as circumstances objectively permit, to any person injured as the result of such use of excessive force. The bill requires a law-enforcement officer to report intervention or use of excessive force in accordance with his employing agency's policies for reporting misconduct. The bill provides that any law-enforcement officer who violates the provisions of the bill shall be subject to disciplinary action.
FULL TEXT
- 08/17/20 House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 08/18/20 20200388D pdf | impact statements
- 08/26/20 House: Committee substitute printed 20201020D-H1 pdf | impact statements
- 09/16/20 Senate: Committee substitute printed 20201180D-S1 pdf | impact statement
- 10/02/20 Senate: Floor substitute printed 20201297D-S2 (Locke) pdf | impact statement
- 10/14/20 House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB5029ER) pdf | impact statement
- 10/28/20 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0025) pdf
AMENDMENTS
- House committee, floor amendments and substitutes offered
- Senate committee, floor amendments and substitutes offered
HISTORY
- 08/17/20 House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 08/18/20 20200388D
- 08/17/20 House: Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
- 08/26/20 House: Reported from Courts of Justice with substitute (13-Y 8-N)
- 08/26/20 House: Committee substitute printed 20201020D-H1
- 08/26/20 House: Referred to Committee on Appropriations
- 08/31/20 House: Reported from Appropriations (13-Y 8-N)
- 09/02/20 House: Read first time
- 09/03/20 House: Read second time
- 09/03/20 House: Committee substitute agreed to 20201020D-H1
- 09/03/20 House: Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB5029H1
- 09/04/20 House: Read third time and passed House (55-Y 42-N)
- 09/04/20 House: VOTE: Passage (55-Y 42-N)
- 09/09/20 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed
- 09/09/20 Senate: Referred to Committee on the Judiciary
- 09/16/20 Senate: Reported from Judiciary with substitute (8-Y 5-N)
- 09/16/20 Senate: Committee substitute printed 20201180D-S1
- 09/16/20 Senate: Rereferred to Finance and Appropriations
- 09/24/20 Senate: Reported from Finance and Appropriations (12-Y 4-N)
- 09/25/20 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (36-Y 0-N)
- 10/01/20 Senate: Passed by temporarily
- 10/01/20 Senate: Passed by for the day
- 10/02/20 Senate: Floor substitute printed 20201297D-S2 (Locke)
- 10/02/20 Senate: Read third time
- 10/02/20 Senate: Committee substitute rejected
- 10/02/20 Senate: Reading of substitute waived
- 10/02/20 Senate: Substitute by Senator Locke agreed to
- 10/02/20 Senate: Engrossed by Senate - floor substitute HB5029S2
- 10/02/20 Senate: Passed Senate with substitute (20-Y 17-N)
- 10/02/20 Senate: Reconsideration of passage agreed to by Senate (38-Y 0-N)
- 10/02/20 Senate: Passed Senate with substitute (21-Y 17-N)
- 10/07/20 House: Placed on Calendar
- 10/07/20 House: Passed by temporarily
- 10/07/20 House: Senate substitute agreed to by House 20201297D-S2 (57-Y 39-N)
- 10/07/20 House: VOTE: Adoption (57-Y 39-N)
- 10/14/20 House: Enrolled
- 10/14/20 House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB5029ER)
- 10/14/20 House: Signed by Speaker
- 10/14/20 Senate: Signed by President
- 10/21/20 House: Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on October 21, 2020
- 10/21/20 Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., October 28, 2020
- 10/28/20 Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 25 (effective 3/1/21)
- 10/28/20 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0025)