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Bills · 2021-2022 Regular Session

AB 225

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Relating to: reckless handling of a vaccine or drug and providing a penalty.

Crime and criminals Drugs Legislature — Criminal penalties joint review committee on Vaccination

  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 damage to another's

property is guilty of a Class A misdemeanor. If the damage reduces the property

value by more than $2,500, the penalty is increased to a Class I felony.

Under this bill, a person who recklessly handles, stores, or treats a vaccine,

drug, or biologic product used as a therapeutic treatment in a manner that may

render the item unsafe, tainted, spoiled, ineffective, or unusable is guilty of a Class

I felony. Under the bill, unlike the current law prohibition against damaging

property, the item would not actually have to be damaged in order for the person to

be found guilty. The current law definition of reckless would apply in this crime so

the person, in doing the act, must create an unreasonable and substantial risk of

death or great bodily harm to another and must be aware of that risk.

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: Brandtjen (R) , Gundrum (R) , Knodl (R) , Kuglitsch (R) , Magnafici (R) , Rozar (R) , Skowronski (R) , Tittl (R)

8 cosponsors

Born (R) , Cabrera (D) , Darling (R) , L. Myers (D) , L. Taylor (D) , Marklein (R) , Nass (R) , Stroebel (R)

Votes

Assembly: Report Assembly Amendment 1 adoption recommended by Committee on Criminal Justice and Public Safety, Ayes 11, Noes 0

Passed 11–0 Nov 15, 2021 official source full page

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

Assembly: Report Assembly Amendment 2 adoption recommended by Committee on Criminal Justice and Public Safety, Ayes 11, Noes 0

Passed 11–0 Nov 15, 2021 official source full page

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

Assembly: Report passage as amended recommended by Committee on Criminal Justice and Public Safety, Ayes 11, Noes 0

Passed 11–0 Nov 15, 2021 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. Mar 31, 2021 · Assembly

    Introduced by Representatives Knodl, Magnafici, Gundrum, Rozar, Tittl, Kuglitsch, Skowronski and Brandtjen; cosponsored by Senators Stroebel, Darling, Nass, L. Taylor and Marklein

  2. Mar 31, 2021 · Assembly

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

  3. Mar 31, 2021 · Assembly

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

  4. Apr 26, 2021 · Assembly

    Representative Born added as a coauthor

  5. Jun 8, 2021 · Assembly

    Representative L. Myers added as a coauthor

  6. Jun 22, 2021 · Assembly

    Assembly Amendment 1 offered by Representative Knodl

  7. Aug 18, 2021 · Assembly

    Public hearing held by committee on Criminal Justice and Public Safety

  8. Oct 1, 2021 · Assembly

    Assembly Amendment 2 offered by Representative Knodl

  9. Oct 5, 2021 · Assembly

    Executive action taken by committee on Criminal Justice and Public Safety

  10. Nov 15, 2021 · Assembly

    Report Assembly Amendment 2 adoption recommended by Committee on Criminal Justice and Public Safety, Ayes 11, Noes 0

  11. Nov 15, 2021 · Assembly

    Report passage as amended recommended by Committee on Criminal Justice and Public Safety, Ayes 11, Noes 0

  12. Nov 15, 2021 · Assembly

    Referred to committee on Rules

  13. Nov 15, 2021 · Assembly

    Report Assembly Amendment 1 adoption recommended by Committee on Criminal Justice and Public Safety, Ayes 11, Noes 0

  14. Jan 18, 2022 · Assembly

    Representative Cabrera added as a coauthor

  15. Jan 18, 2022 · Assembly

    Placed on calendar 1-20-2022 by Committee on Rules

  16. Jan 20, 2022 · Assembly

    Laid on the table

  17. Mar 15, 2022 · Assembly

    Failed to pass pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 1