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IN SB0180
Bill
AI Summary
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Increases Youth Advisory Council membership from 22 to 23 members, effective July 1, 2015.
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Designates the Indiana Association of Student Councils to appoint the additional 23rd member of the council.
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Authorizes the Youth Advisory Council to adopt bylaws governing its organization and proceedings.
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Members must be between 16 and 20 years of age at the time of appointment and serve two-year terms.
Legislative Description
Bias motivated offenses. Provides that a bias motivated crime is an offense in which the person who committed the offense intentionally: (1) selected the person who was injured; or (2) damaged or otherwise affected property; by the offense because of the actual or perceived color, creed, disability, national origin, race, religion, sexual orientation, gender, or gender identity of the injured person or of the owner or occupant of the affected property. Enhances the penalties for the following offenses one level if the offense is a bias motivated crime: (1) Battery. (2) Aggravated battery. (3) Strangulation. (4) Kidnapping. (5) Criminal confinement.
Last Action
First Reading: referred to Committee on Corrections & Criminal Law
1/6/2015