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2020 SPECIAL SESSION I
HB 5098 Hate crimes; falsely summoning or giving false reports to law-enforcement officials, penalty.
Introduced by: Alex Q. Askew | all patrons ... notes | add to my profiles
SUMMARY AS PASSED HOUSE: (all summaries)
Hate crime; falsely summoning or giving false reports to law-enforcement officials; penalty. Increases the penalty for falsely summoning or giving false reports to law-enforcement officials from a Class 1 misdemeanor to a Class 6 felony when a person intentionally gives a false report as to the commission of any crime to any law-enforcement official, causes another to give a false report to any law-enforcement official, or calls or summons any law-enforcement official against another person because of his race, religious conviction, gender, disability, gender identity, sexual orientation, color, or national origin.
FULL TEXT
- 08/20/20 House: Presented and ordered printed 20200320D pdf | impact statement
- 08/26/20 House: Committee substitute printed 20201045D-H1 pdf | impact statements
- 10/07/20 House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB5098ER) pdf | impact statement
- 10/21/20 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0022) pdf
HISTORY
- 08/20/20 House: Presented and ordered printed 20200320D
- 08/20/20 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 20201045D-H1
- 08/26/20 House: Referred to Committee on Appropriations
- 08/31/20 House: Reported from Appropriations (13-Y 9-N)
- 09/02/20 House: Read first time
- 09/03/20 House: Read second time
- 09/03/20 House: Committee substitute agreed to 20201045D-H1
- 09/03/20 House: Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB5098H1
- 09/04/20 House: Read third time and passed House (55-Y 43-N)
- 09/04/20 House: VOTE: Passage (55-Y 43-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 (7-Y 2-N)
- 09/16/20 Senate: Rereferred to Finance and Appropriations
- 09/24/20 Senate: Reported from Finance and Appropriations (16-Y 0-N)
- 09/25/20 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (36-Y 0-N)
- 10/01/20 Senate: Passed by temporarily
- 10/01/20 Senate: Read third time
- 10/01/20 Senate: Passed Senate (24-Y 16-N)
- 10/07/20 House: Enrolled
- 10/07/20 House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB5098ER)
- 10/07/20 House: Signed by Speaker
- 10/07/20 Senate: Signed by President
- 10/14/20 House: Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on October 14, 2020
- 10/14/20 Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., October 21, 2020
- 10/21/20 Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 22 (effective 3/1/21)
- 10/21/20 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0022)