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2022 SESSION
SB 453 Assault and battery; persons diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder, intellectual disability, etc.
Introduced by: Jennifer B. Boysko | all patrons ... notes | add to my profiles
SUMMARY AS PASSED SENATE: (all summaries)
Assault and battery; persons diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder, intellectual disability, or mental illness; penalties. Provides that any person charged with a simple assault and battery offense who has been diagnosed by a psychiatrist or clinical psychologist with an autism spectrum disorder, an intellectual disability, or serious mental illness and the violation was caused by or had a direct and substantial relationship to the person's disorder or disability shall not be subject to mandatory minimum punishment. Under current law, certain simple assault and battery offenses carry a mandatory minimum punishment when such offenses are committed against certain groups of people.
FULL TEXT
- 01/11/22 Senate: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/12/22 22102307D pdf | impact statement
- 02/09/22 Senate: Committee substitute printed 22106448D-S1 pdf | impact statement
AMENDMENTS
HISTORY
- 01/11/22 Senate: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/12/22 22102307D
- 01/11/22 Senate: Referred to Committee on the Judiciary
- 02/09/22 Senate: Reported from Judiciary with substitute (11-Y 2-N)
- 02/09/22 Senate: Committee substitute printed 22106448D-S1
- 02/10/22 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
- 02/11/22 Senate: Read second time
- 02/11/22 Senate: Reading of substitute waived
- 02/11/22 Senate: Committee substitute agreed to 22106448D-S1
- 02/11/22 Senate: Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute SB453S1
- 02/14/22 Senate: Read third time and passed Senate (27-Y 13-N)
- 02/22/22 House: Placed on Calendar
- 02/22/22 House: Read first time
- 02/22/22 House: Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
- 02/22/22 House: Assigned Courts sub: Subcommittee #1
- 02/23/22 House: Subcommittee recommends laying on the table (7-Y 0-N)
- 03/08/22 House: Left in Courts of Justice