CRIMINAL/PENALTIES: Provides relative to the penalties for battery of a bus operator (EN SEE FISC NOTE GF EX)
This bill modifies the penalties for battery committed against a bus operator. It clarifies that the offense occurs specifically while the operator is driving a bus and increases the maximum jail time from three days to four days. The legislation also updates the description of the punishment to explicitly include the possibility of hard labor. These changes directly affect individuals charged with assaulting bus drivers and the legal framework for sentencing such crimes.
Bill status
signed
all 5 stages cleared
Introduction
Feb 2024
Committee Review
May 2024
House Passage
Apr 2024
Senate Passage
May 2024
Signed into Law
May 2024
Introduced Feb 22, 2024
Signed May 28, 2024
Floor votes · Senate May 16, 2024 · House Apr 15, 2024
How they voted
38–0
Passed · 1 other
Total votes 39
May 16, 2024
D
Democratic11
100% Yea
R
Republican28
96% Yea
Vote distribution
All Yea
All Nay
Mixed
No data
Full legislative history
Actions timeline
Total actions
22
Key actions
4
Committee
5
May 16, 2024
Upper · Passed
Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 38 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled.
upper
May 8, 2024
Committee
Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
upper
May 7, 2024
Upper · Passed
Reported favorably.
upper
Apr 15, 2024
Lower · Passed
Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 103, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate.
lower
Apr 9, 2024
Lower · Passed
Reported with amendments (11-0).
lower
Mar 11, 2024
Committee
Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Administration of Criminal Justice.
lower
Feb 22, 2024
Committee
Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Administration of Criminal Justice.
lower
1 primary · 0 co-sponsors
Sponsors
Role
Legislator
Party
State
District
P
Mike Bayham
RRepublican
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