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Bills · 2019-2020 Regular Session

AB 758

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Relating to: battery by a person detained while awaiting trial as a sexually violent person and providing a penalty.

Crime and criminals — Battery Crime and criminals — Felony Juvenile detention facility Legislature — Criminal penalties joint review committee on Mental health — Hospitals and institutes Sex crimes

  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, a person who intentionally causes bodily harm to another

person commits simple battery and is guilty of a Class A misdemeanor. Current law

increases the penalty for battery under special circumstances. For instance, if a

person who is committed to a facility as a sexually violent person commits battery

against an officer, employee, agent, visitor, or other resident of the facility, the person

is guilty of a Class H felony. This bill adds that a person who is placed in a facility

awaiting a commitment trial as a sexually violent person is also guilty of a Class H

felony if he or she commits battery against an officer, employee, agent, visitor, or

other resident of the facility.

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: Kurtz (R)

1 cosponsors

Marklein (R)

Votes

Assembly: Report passage recommended by Committee on Criminal Justice and Public Safety, Ayes 14, Noes 0

Passed 14–0 Feb 6, 2020 official source full page

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

Assembly: PASSAGE

Passed 99–0 Feb 11, 2020 official source full page

Aye · 99

Senate: Report concurrence recommended by Committee on Judiciary and Public Safety, Ayes 4, Noes 1

Passed 4–1 Mar 17, 2020 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 21, 2020 · Assembly

    Introduced by Representative Kurtz; cosponsored by Senator Marklein

  2. Jan 21, 2020 · Assembly

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

  3. Jan 30, 2020 · Assembly

    Public hearing held

  4. Feb 6, 2020 · Assembly

    Executive action taken

  5. Feb 6, 2020 · Assembly

    Report passage recommended by Committee on Criminal Justice and Public Safety, Ayes 14, Noes 0

  6. Feb 6, 2020 · Assembly

    Referred to committee on Rules

  7. Feb 6, 2020 · Assembly

    Placed on calendar 2-11-2020 by Committee on Rules

  8. Feb 11, 2020 · Assembly

    Read a third time and passed, Ayes 99, Noes 0

  9. Feb 11, 2020 · Assembly

    Ordered immediately messaged

  10. Feb 11, 2020 · Assembly

    Read a second time

  11. Feb 11, 2020 · Assembly

    Ordered to a third reading

  12. Feb 11, 2020 · Assembly

    Rules suspended

  13. Feb 12, 2020 · Senate

    Received from Assembly

  14. Feb 28, 2020 · Senate

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

  15. Mar 10, 2020 · Senate

    Public hearing held

  16. Mar 17, 2020 · Senate

    Executive action taken

  17. Mar 17, 2020 · Senate

    Report concurrence recommended by Committee on Judiciary and Public Safety, Ayes 4, Noes 1

  18. Mar 17, 2020 · Senate

    Available for scheduling

  19. Apr 1, 2020 · Senate

    Failed to concur in pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 1