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IN HB1388
Bill
Status
1/17/2017
Primary Sponsor
Charles Moseley
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AI Summary
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Battery against a utility worker engaged in ordinary employment duties becomes a Level 6 felony instead of a Class B misdemeanor, effective July 1, 2017.
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Defines "utility worker" as an individual employed by a public utility, municipally owned utility, cable or satellite television company, telecommunications carrier, electric cooperative, telephone cooperative, or nonprofit utility.
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Battery involving placement of bodily fluid or waste on a utility worker becomes 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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Also establishes the same Level 5 felony enhancement for placing infected bodily fluid or waste on a public safety official.
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Amends Indiana Code sections 35-31.5-2 and 35-42-2-1 to add these new offense classifications and definitions.
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
1/17/2017