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IN HB1204
Bill
Status
1/9/2018
Primary Sponsor
Charles Moseley
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AI Summary
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Battery against a utility worker engaged in ordinary employment duties is elevated from a Class B misdemeanor to a Level 6 felony.
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Battery involving placement of bodily fluid or waste on a utility worker becomes a Level 5 felony if the perpetrator knew or recklessly failed to know the fluid or waste was infected with hepatitis, tuberculosis, or HIV.
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Defines "utility worker" as individuals employed by public utilities, municipally owned utilities, cable or satellite television companies, telecommunications carriers, electric cooperatives, telephone cooperatives, or nonprofit utilities.
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Effective date is July 1, 2018.
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
1/9/2018