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2020 SPECIAL SESSION I
HB 5112 Law-enforcement officer; duty to render aid, duty to report wrongdoing by another officer.
Introduced by: Mark H. Levine | all patrons ... notes | add to my profiles
SUMMARY AS PASSED HOUSE: (all summaries)
Law-enforcement officer; duty to render aid; duty to report wrongdoing by another law-enforcement officer; penalty. Requires any law-enforcement officer on duty who witnesses another person suffering from a serious bodily injury or a life-threatening condition to render aid and makes it a duty to report acts of wrongdoing committed by another law-enforcement officer. Any law-enforcement officer who fails to render such aid or report such acts of abuse, fraud, misconduct, or wrongdoing committed by another law-enforcement officer shall be subject to disciplinary action, including dismissal, demotion, suspension, or transfer of the law-enforcement officer. The bill also penalizes as a Class 1 misdemeanor the failure of any law-enforcement officer, who has actual knowledge of the commission on duty of a criminal offense by another law-enforcement officer, to report such wrongdoing, defined in the bill. The bill also amends the definition of "bias-based profiling" to include sexual orientation and gender identity.
FULL TEXT
- 08/21/20 House: Presented and ordered printed 20200610D pdf | impact statement
- 09/03/20 House: Printed as engrossed 20200610D-E pdf | impact statement
AMENDMENTS
HISTORY
- 08/21/20 House: Presented and ordered printed 20200610D
- 08/21/20 House: Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
- 08/26/20 House: Reported from Courts of Justice with amendments (13-Y 7-N)
- 08/28/20 House: Read first time
- 09/03/20 House: Read second time
- 09/03/20 House: Committee amendments agreed to
- 09/03/20 House: Engrossed by House as amended HB5112E
- 09/03/20 House: Printed as engrossed 20200610D-E
- 09/04/20 House: Read third time and passed House (54-Y 43-N)
- 09/04/20 House: VOTE: Passage (54-Y 43-N)
- 09/09/20 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed
- 09/09/20 Senate: Referred to Committee on the Judiciary
- 09/16/20 Senate: Passed by indefinitely in Judiciary (10-Y 3-N)