Threats
Summary
Threats; Decreasing the criminal penalty for threatening to throw, project, place, or discharge any destructive device with intent to do bodily harm to any person or with intent to do damage to any property of any person; prohibiting threats to use a firearm or weapon with specified intent; providing criminal penalties; redefining the term “violence” to include incidents of cyberstalking, etc.
Bill status
died
3 of 5 stages cleared
Introduction
Jan 2020
Committee Review
Mar 2020
Senate Passage
Mar 2020
House Passage
Governor
Introduced Jan 14, 2020
Last action Mar 14, 2020
Floor votes · Senate Mar 6, 2020
How they voted
21–0
Passed
Total votes 21
Mar 6, 2020
D
Democratic12
100% Yea
R
Republican9
100% Yea
Vote distribution
All Yea
All Nay
Mixed
No data
Full legislative history
Actions timeline
Total actions
31
Key actions
9
Committee
9
Mar 9, 2020
Committee
Referred to Calendar
lower
Mar 6, 2020
Upper · Passed
CS passed as amended; YEAS 39 NAYS 0
upper
Mar 5, 2020
Upper · Passed
Amendment(s) adopted (161760)
upper
Mar 3, 2020
Upper · Passed
Favorable by- Appropriations; YEAS 21 NAYS 0
upper
Feb 27, 2020
Upper · Passed
On Committee agenda-- Appropriations, 03/03/20, 1:00 pm, 412 Knott Building
upper
Feb 5, 2020
Upper · Passed
Pending reference review under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
upper
Jan 30, 2020
Upper · Passed
On Committee agenda-- Criminal Justice, 02/04/20, 9:00 am, 37 Senate Building
upper
Jan 23, 2020
Upper · Passed
On Committee agenda-- Criminal Justice, 01/28/20, 1:30 pm, 37 Senate Building --Amendment(s) Adopted - Temporarily Postponed
upper
Jan 15, 2020
Upper · Passed
Pending reference review under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
upper
Jan 14, 2020
Introduced
Introduced
upper
Jan 6, 2020
Upper · Passed
On Committee agenda-- Infrastructure and Security, 01/13/20, 3:30 pm, 110 Senate Building
upper
Nov 21, 2019
Committee
Referred to Infrastructure and Security; Criminal Justice; Appropriations
upper
0 primary · 0 co-sponsors
Sponsors
No sponsor information available.
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