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IN HB1188
Bill
Status
1/7/2016
Primary Sponsor
Charles Moseley
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AI Summary
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Creates new definition of "utility worker" as an individual employed by public utilities, municipally owned utilities, cable/satellite companies, telecommunications carriers, electric cooperatives, telephone cooperatives, or nonprofit utilities.
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Elevates battery against a utility worker acting in ordinary course of employment from Class B misdemeanor to Level 6 felony.
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Makes battery involving placement of bodily fluid or waste on a utility worker a Level 5 felony if the person knew or recklessly failed to know the fluid or waste was infected with hepatitis, tuberculosis, or human immunodeficiency virus.
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Applies the same enhanced penalty provisions for utility workers that previously applied only to public safety officials in battery cases.
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Effective July 1, 2016.
Legislative Description
Battery on a utility worker. Makes battery a Level 6 felony instead of a Class B misdemeanor if the battery is committed against a utility worker engaged in the ordinary course of the utility worker's employment. Makes the offense a Level 5 felony if: (1) the battery involved the placement of any bodily fluid or waste on a utility worker; and (2) the person who committed the offense knew or recklessly failed to know that the bodily fluid or waste placed on the utility worker was infected with hepatitis, tuberculosis, or human immunodeficiency virus.
Last Action
First reading: referred to Committee on Courts and Criminal Code
1/7/2016