Bills · 2021-2022 Regular Session

SB 100

Relating to: battery or threat to a probation, extended supervision, and parole agent; a community supervision agent; or an aftercare agent or a family member of the agent and providing a penalty.

Crime and criminals — Battery Crime and criminals — Felony Family Indians and tribal issues Legislature — Criminal penalties joint review committee on Parole or probation Sentences and penalties

Introduced, completed
Passes Senate, completed
Passes Assembly, completed
Governor signs, completed
Law, completed

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 the crime of simple battery and is guilty of a Class A misdemeanor.

Current law provides greater penalties for persons who intentionally cause bodily

harm to certain persons, which is special circumstances battery. For example, under

current law, a person who intentionally causes bodily harm to a probation, extended

supervision, and parole agent; a community supervision agent; or an aftercare agent

is guilty of a Class H felony. This bill expands this special circumstances battery

crime so that intentionally harming a family member of the agent, or threatening to

harm the agent or a family member of the agent, is also a Class H felony. In addition,

the bill expands the definition of agent to include an agent in a comparable program

authorized by a federally recognized American Indian tribe or band.

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.

Votes

Senate: Report adoption of Senate Amendment 1 recommended by Committee on Judiciary and Public Safety, Ayes 5, Noes 2

Passed 5–2 May 7, 2021 official source full page

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

Senate: Report passage as amended recommended by Committee on Judiciary and Public Safety, Ayes 5, Noes 2