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Relating to the defenses of justification and diminished capacity for certain violent crimes
Sponsored by the House Judiciary Committee
Topics:Courts & civil lawFirearmsLGBTQIA+
Same legislation: HSB 6
Where it is now
- Done: IntroducedJanuary 11, 2023
- Done: SubcommitteeJanuary 11, 2023
- Done: House committeeJanuary 26, 2023
- Done: Passes the HouseFebruary 9, 202394–1
- Stopped: Senate committeeDied when the General Assembly ended
- Next: Passes the Senate
- Next: To the Governor
- Next: Signed into law
Died when the session ended The 2024 session adjourned on April 19, 2024, the General Assembly’s last regular session. Bills that didn’t pass both chambers died. What’s a funnel?
What’s in it
AI summary People who commit violent crimes or assaults because of a nonviolent sexual advance cannot use certain legal defenses in court. This rule applies if the person attacks someone because of that advance or because they found out about a victim's sex, sexual orientation, or gender identity.1
Read the official explanation
This bill specifies that the defenses of justification and diminished capacity are not available when a person who is the subject of a nonviolent sexual advance commits a violent crime or an assault upon another person as the result of that sexual advance or solely as a result of the person’s discovery of, knowledge about, or potential disclosure of the victim’s sex, sexual orientation, or gender identity.11, and includes any other felony or aggravated misdemeanor which involved the actual or threatened infliction of physical or emotional injury on one or more persons. 1 defines assault. A person commits an assault when, without justification, the person does any of the following: any act which is intended to cause pain or injury to, or which is intended to result in physical contact which will be insulting or offensive to another, coupled with the apparent ability to execute the act; any act which is intended to place another in fear of immediate physical contact which will be painful, injurious, insulting, or offensive, coupled with the apparent ability to execute the act; and intentionally points any firearm toward another, or displays in a threatening manner any dangerous weapon toward another.
Senate subcommittee
Named February 14, 2023. On March 16, 2023 it recommended passage. [].
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- HF 310 Relating to the defenses of justification and diminished capacity for certain violent crim…89th General Assembly · Passed House · same titlePassed a chamber
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- SF 401 Relating to the defenses of justification and diminished capacity for certain violent crim…91st General Assembly · In committeeNearly identical
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