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Bills · 2021-2022 Regular Session

AB 158

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Relating to: harassment of a sports official and providing a penalty.

Athletics Crime and criminals Legislature — Criminal penalties joint review committee on

  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 commits harassment and is subject to a Class B

forfeiture if the person, with intent to harass or intimidate, strikes, shoves, or kicks

another person or if the person engages in a course of conduct or repeatedly commits

acts which harass or intimidate another person and which serve no legitimate

purpose. Under this bill, the person is guilty of a Class A misdemeanor if the person

commits harassment against a sports official, such as a referee, umpire, judge, or

person performing similar functions, and the harassment is in response to, or

intended to influence, an action by the sports official.

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: Armstrong (R) , Billings (D) , Cabral-Guevara (R) , Callahan (R) , Dallman (R) , Horlacher (R) , Moses (R) , Mursau (R) , Novak (R) , Oldenburg (R) , Petryk (R) , Rozar (R) , Schraa (R) , Skowronski (R) , Steffen (R) , Subeck (D) , Tittl (R) , Tusler (R) , Vruwink (D)

8 cosponsors

Ballweg (R) , Jacque (R) , Marklein (R) , Nass (R) , Pfaff (D) , Ramthun (R) , Smith (D) , Testin (R)

Full history

  1. Mar 10, 2021 · Assembly

    Introduced by Representatives Novak, Dallman, Vruwink, Armstrong, Billings, Cabral-Guevara, Callahan, Horlacher, Moses, Oldenburg, Petryk, Rozar, Schraa, Skowronski, Steffen, Subeck, Tittl, Tusler and Mursau; cosponsored by Senators Ballweg, Jacque, Marklein, Nass, Pfaff, Smith and Testin

  2. Mar 10, 2021 · Assembly

    Read first time and referred to Committee on Judiciary

  3. Mar 10, 2021 · Assembly

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

  4. Apr 15, 2021 · Assembly

    Public hearing held

  5. Apr 20, 2021 · Assembly

    Representative Ramthun added as a coauthor

  6. Mar 15, 2022 · Assembly

    Failed to pass pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 1