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Bills · 2017-2018 Regular Session

SB 694

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Relating to: battery of an officer of the court and providing a criminal penalty.

Attorney Children — Protection and services County — Officers Court — Officers Crime and criminals — Battery

  1. Introduced, stopped here
  2. Passes Senate, not reached
  3. Passes Assembly, not reached
  4. Governor signs, not reached
  5. Law, not reached

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What this bill does

Plain-language analysis by the nonpartisan Legislative Reference Bureau

This bill makes it a Class H felony to intentionally cause bodily harm or

threaten to cause bodily harm to the person or family member of a guardian ad litem,

corporation counsel, or attorney in response to an action taken by that guardian ad

litem, corporation counsel, or attorney in his or her official capacity in proceedings

under the Children's Code, Juvenile Justice Code, or Alcohol, Drug Abuse,

Developmental Disabilities and Mental Health Act; a guardianship or

conservatorship proceeding; a protective service proceeding; or an action affecting

the family.

Sponsors

Introduced by: Cowles (R) , L. Taylor (D) , Marklein (R) , Petrowski (R)

10 cosponsors

Doyle (D) , E. Brooks (R) , Edming (R) , Horlacher (R) , Kulp (R) , Shankland (D) , Snyder (R) , Spiros (R) , Subeck (D) , Tusler (R)

Votes

Senate: Report passage recommended by Committee on Judiciary and Public Safety, Ayes 5, Noes 0

Passed 5–0 Feb 14, 2018 official source full page

No individual roll call was recorded for this vote. Committee votes and some older sessions record totals only.

Full history

  1. Jan 19, 2018 · Senate

    Introduced by Senators Petrowski, Cowles, Marklein and L. Taylor; cosponsored by Representatives Snyder, E. Brooks, Doyle, Edming, Horlacher, Kulp, Subeck and Spiros

  2. Jan 19, 2018 · Senate

    Read first time and referred to Committee on Judiciary and Public Safety

  3. Jan 23, 2018 · Senate

    Representative Tusler added as a cosponsor

  4. Feb 6, 2018 · Senate

    Public hearing held

  5. Feb 14, 2018 · Senate

    Executive action taken

  6. Feb 14, 2018 · Senate

    Report passage recommended by Committee on Judiciary and Public Safety, Ayes 5, Noes 0

  7. Feb 14, 2018 · Senate

    Available for scheduling

  8. Feb 21, 2018 · Senate

    Representative Shankland added as a cosponsor

  9. Mar 28, 2018 · Senate

    Failed to pass pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 1