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2022 SESSION
SB 700 Correctional facility; intentionally covering, removing, etc., a security camera, penalty.
Introduced by: Bill DeSteph | all patrons ... notes | add to my profiles
SUMMARY AS PASSED SENATE: (all summaries)
Covering a security camera in a correctional facility; penalty. Provides that any person who intentionally covers, removes, damages, renders inoperable, or otherwise obscures a security camera, as defined in the bill, without the permission of the sheriff, jail superintendent, warden, or Director of the Department of Corrections or Department of Juvenile Justice is guilty of a Class 1 misdemeanor. The bill also provides that any person who intentionally covers, removes, damages, renders inoperable, or otherwise obscures a security camera with the intent of inhibiting or preventing a security camera from recording or transmitting a photograph, motion picture, or other digital image of the commission of a felony is guilty of a Class 6 felony. This bill is identical to HB 1332.
FULL TEXT
- 01/21/22 Senate: Presented and ordered printed 22104206D pdf | impact statements
- 02/04/22 Senate: Committee substitute printed 22106076D-S1 pdf | impact statements
- 03/07/22 Senate: Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB700ER) pdf | impact statement
- 04/11/22 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0674) pdf
HISTORY
- 01/21/22 Senate: Presented and ordered printed 22104206D
- 01/21/22 Senate: Referred to Committee on Rehabilitation and Social Services
- 02/04/22 Senate: Reported from Rehabilitation and Social Services with substitute (15-Y 0-N)
- 02/04/22 Senate: Rereferred to Finance and Appropriations
- 02/04/22 Senate: Committee substitute printed 22106076D-S1
- 02/10/22 Senate: Reported from Finance and Appropriations (16-Y 0-N)
- 02/11/22 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
- 02/14/22 Senate: Read second time
- 02/14/22 Senate: Reading of substitute waived
- 02/14/22 Senate: Committee substitute agreed to 22106076D-S1
- 02/14/22 Senate: Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute SB700S1
- 02/14/22 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
- 02/14/22 Senate: Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N)
- 02/21/22 House: Placed on Calendar
- 02/21/22 House: Read first time
- 02/21/22 House: Referred to Committee on Public Safety
- 02/25/22 House: Reported from Public Safety (16-Y 6-N)
- 03/01/22 House: Read second time
- 03/02/22 House: Read third time
- 03/02/22 House: Passed House (78-Y 22-N)
- 03/02/22 House: VOTE: Passage (78-Y 22-N)
- 03/07/22 Senate: Enrolled
- 03/07/22 Senate: Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB700ER)
- 03/08/22 Senate: Signed by President
- 03/08/22 House: Signed by Speaker
- 03/22/22 Senate: Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on March 22, 2022
- 03/22/22 Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 11, 2022
- 04/11/22 Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 674 (effective 7/1/22)
- 04/11/22 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0674)