Did not become law. It stopped in the Senate's Judiciary Committee on July 6, 2015. The 2015 session has ended.
2015 Regular Session
Senate Bill 789
Increases penalty for crime of strangulation.
What it does
The synopsis the Legislative Assembly published with the bill.
Increases penalty for crime of strangulation. Punishes by maximum of five years' imprisonment, $125,000 fine, or both, or, in certain circumstances, by 10 years' imprisonment, $250,000 fine, or both. Removes exception for religious practices. Increases penalty for crime of menacing in certain circumstances. Punishes by maximum of five years' imprisonment, $125,000 fine, or both. Requires law enforcement officer to perform lethality assessment after making mandatory arrest for domestic assault. Requires court to consider completion of batterers' intervention program as mitigation when imposing sentence for domestic violence crime. Authorizes person to consider past use of force by other person when using physical force against other person in self-defense or in defense of third person.
Sponsors
Who carried the bill in each chamber, and who signed on. Each name leads to the member's page.
In the Senate
Sponsor
Its course
February 26 to July 6, 2015, on one scale. In the top row each mark is a day something happened; taller marks are busier days.
Each committee stop sits inside its chamber.
Every action4 actions on 4 days
In the SenateFeb 26 to Jul 6 · stopped130 days
Waiting for a committeeFeb 26 to Mar 35 days
JudiciaryMar 3 to Jul 6 · stopped125 days
Votes
Yeas to nays, as the Legislative Assembly recorded them. Committee votes are set in.
Judiciary11–18
Jul 1 · 1 present
Text
Each version as the Legislative Assembly printed it.
l9n doesn't hold this bill's text yet.
What happened
In l9n's words, one line for each step. Every action as the Legislative Assembly published it is below.
In the Senate Feb 26 – Jul 6
- Feb 26Introduced
- Mar 3Sent to Judiciary
- Jul 6Died when the session ended