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- Done: IntroducedJanuary 11, 2023
- Done: SubcommitteeJanuary 11, 2023
- Done: House committeeJanuary 26, 2023
- Skipped: Passes the HouseContinued as HF 159
- Next: Senate committee
- Next: Passes the Senate
- Next: To the Governor
- Next: Signed into law
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What’s in it
AI summary People who commit a violent crime or assault because of a nonviolent sexual advance cannot use certain legal defenses in court. This rule applies if the person reacts violently because of the advance or because they found out about someone's sex, sexual orientation, or gender identity.1
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_____ 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.
House subcommittee
Named January 11, 2023. On January 25, 2023 it recommended passage. Vote Total: 3-0.
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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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