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2021 SESSION
HB 2132 Homicides and assaults and bodily woundings; certain matters not to constitute defenses.
Introduced by: Danica A. Roem | all patrons ... notes | add to my profiles
SUMMARY AS PASSED HOUSE: (all summaries)
Homicides and assaults and bodily woundings; certain matters not to constitute defenses. Provides that the discovery of, perception of, or belief about another person's actual or perceived sex, gender, gender identity, or sexual orientation, whether or not accurate, is not a defense to any charge of capital murder, murder in the first degree, murder in the second degree, voluntary manslaughter, or assault and bodily wounding-related crimes and is not provocation negating or excluding malice as an element of murder.
FULL TEXT
- 01/12/21 House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/13/21 21102483D pdf | impact statements
- 02/03/21 House: Committee substitute printed 21104105D-H1 pdf | impact statements
AMENDMENTS
- House subcommittee amendments and substitutes offered
- House subcommittee amendments and substitutes adopted
HISTORY
- 01/12/21 House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/13/21 21102483D
- 01/12/21 House: Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
- 01/28/21 House: Assigned Courts sub: Criminal
- 01/29/21 House: Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (6-Y 2-N)
- 02/03/21 House: Reported from Courts of Justice with substitute (13-Y 8-N)
- 02/03/21 House: Committee substitute printed 21104105D-H1
- 02/03/21 House: Read first time
- 02/04/21 House: Read second time
- 02/04/21 House: Committee substitute agreed to 21104105D-H1
- 02/04/21 House: Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB2132H1
- 02/05/21 House: Read third time and passed House (58-Y 42-N)
- 02/05/21 House: VOTE: Passage (58-Y 42-N)
- 02/05/21 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed
- 02/05/21 Senate: Referred to Committee on the Judiciary
- 02/05/21 Senate: Continued to 2021 Sp. Sess. 1 in Judiciary (14-Y 0-N)