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Bills · 2019-2020 Regular Session

AB 545

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Relating to: impersonating a public officer, public employee, or employee of a utility and providing a penalty.

Crime and criminals Crime and criminals — Felony Legislature — Criminal penalties joint review committee on Public employee Public officers Public utility

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

Unfamiliar terms? Glossary

What this bill does

Plain-language analysis by the nonpartisan Legislative Reference Bureau

Under current law, it is a Class I felony for a person to assume to act in an official

capacity of a public office knowing that he or she is not a public officer, employee, or

utility employee or to exercise any function of a public office that he or she is not

qualified to exercise.

Under the bill, it is a Class I felony for a person to impersonate or represent

oneself to be a public officer, employee, or the employee of a utility with the intent

to mislead others into believing that he or she is actually a public officer or employee

or the employee of a utility.

Because this bill creates a new crime or revises a penalty for an existing crime,

the Joint Review Committee on Criminal Penalties may be requested to prepare a

report.

Sponsors

Introduced by: Dittrich (R) , Edming (R) , Ott (R) , Sargent (D) , Sinicki (D) , Skowronski (R) , Tusler (R)

4 cosponsors

Jacque (R) , L. Taylor (D) , Larson (D) , Miller (D)

Votes

Assembly: Report passage recommended by Committee on Criminal Justice and Public Safety, Ayes 10, Noes 0

Passed 10–0 Nov 15, 2019 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. Oct 14, 2019 · Assembly

    Introduced by Representatives Ott, Sargent, Dittrich, Edming, Skowronski, Sinicki and Tusler; cosponsored by Senators Jacque, Miller and L. Taylor

  2. Oct 14, 2019 · Assembly

    Read first time and referred to Committee on Criminal Justice and Public Safety

  3. Oct 14, 2019 · Assembly

    Read first time and referred to Joint Review Committee on Criminal Penalties

  4. Oct 31, 2019 · Assembly

    Public hearing held by committee on Criminal Justice and Public Safety

  5. Nov 14, 2019 · Assembly

    Executive action taken by committee on Criminal Justice and Public Safety

  6. Nov 15, 2019 · Assembly

    Report passage recommended by Committee on Criminal Justice and Public Safety, Ayes 10, Noes 0

  7. Feb 18, 2020 · Assembly

    Senator Larson added as a cosponsor

  8. Apr 1, 2020 · Assembly

    Failed to pass pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 1