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2021 SPECIAL SESSION I
HB 1948 Law-enforcement officer; duty to render aid, duty to report wrongdoing by another officer.
Introduced by: Mark H. Levine | all patrons ... notes | add to my profiles
SUMMARY AS INTRODUCED:
Law-enforcement officer; duty to render aid; duty to report wrongdoing by another law-enforcement officer. Requires any law-enforcement officer on duty who witnesses another person suffering from a serious bodily injury or a life-threatening condition to render aid and makes it a duty to report acts of wrongdoing, defined in the bill and including bias-based profiling, committed by another law-enforcement officer on duty. Any law-enforcement officer who fails to render such aid or report such wrongdoing committed by another law-enforcement officer shall be subject to disciplinary action, including dismissal, demotion, suspension, or transfer of the law-enforcement officer. The bill also expands the definition of "bias-based profiling," a practice banned for sheriffs, deputy sheriffs, other local law-enforcement officers, and State Police officers in the performance of their official duties, to include sexual orientation and gender identity.
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HISTORY
- 01/11/21 House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/13/21 21102665D
- 01/11/21 House: Referred to Committee on Public Safety
- 01/13/21 House: Assigned PS sub: Public Safety
- 01/14/21 House: Subcommittee recommends reporting (5-Y 2-N)
- 01/15/21 House: Reported from Public Safety (15-Y 6-N)
- 01/18/21 House: Read first time
- 01/19/21 House: Read second time and engrossed
- 01/20/21 House: Read third time and passed House (57-Y 42-N)
- 01/20/21 House: VOTE: Passage (57-Y 42-N)
- 01/21/21 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed
- 01/21/21 Senate: Referred to Committee on the Judiciary
- 02/05/21 Senate: Continued to 2021 Sp. Sess. 1 in Judiciary (14-Y 0-N)
- 02/10/21 Senate: Assigned Judiciary sub: Criminal Law
- 02/15/21 Senate: Committee amendments
- 02/15/21 Senate: Failed to report (defeated) in Judiciary (6-Y 9-N)
- 02/17/21 Senate: Reconsidered by Judiciary
- 02/17/21 Senate: Passed by indefinitely in Judiciary (7-Y 6-N)