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HB2170

False caller identification information; penalty.

Status:
Enacted

Chief Patron:
Emily Jordan (R)

Session:
2019 Regular Session

Summary

As Passed Both Chambers. False caller identification information; penalty.

Makes it a Class 3 misdemeanor for any person who, with the intent to defraud, intimidate, or harass, causes a telephone to ring and engages in conduct that results in the display of false caller identification information on the called party's telephone. The bill raises the penalty to a Class 2 misdemeanor for a second or subsequent conviction. The bill does not apply to the blocking of caller identification information, to law-enforcement agencies and officers, to intelligence or security agencies of the federal government and their employees, or to telecommunications, broadband, or Voice-over-Internet protocol service providers in certain circumstances. (Less)

  • Bill History

  • 01/08/2019 - House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/19 19100163D
  • 01/08/2019 - House: Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
  • 01/14/2019 - House: Assigned Courts sub: Subcommittee #1
  • 01/23/2019 - House: Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (8-Y 0-N)
  • 01/25/2019 - House: Reported from Courts of Justice with substitute (16-Y 0-N)
  • 01/25/2019 - House: Committee substitute printed 19105780D-H1
  • 01/28/2019 - House: Impact statement from DPB (HB2170H1)
  • 01/29/2019 - House: Read first time
  • 01/30/2019 - House: Read second time
  • 01/30/2019 - House: Committee substitute agreed to 19105780D-H1
  • 01/30/2019 - House: Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB2170H1
  • 01/31/2019 - House: Read third time and passed House (98-Y 1-N)
  • 01/31/2019 - House: VOTE: PASSAGE (98-Y 1-N)
  • 02/01/2019 - Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed
  • 02/01/2019 - Senate: Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
  • 02/06/2019 - Senate: Reported from Courts of Justice (11-Y 4-N)
  • 02/08/2019 - Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
  • 02/11/2019 - Senate: Read third time
  • 02/11/2019 - Senate: Passed Senate (22-Y 17-N 1-A)   Close Floor Vote
  • 02/11/2019 - Senate: Reconsideration of Senate passage agreed to by Senate (40-Y 0-N)
  • 02/11/2019 - Senate: Passed by for the day
  • 02/12/2019 - Senate: Read third time
  • 02/12/2019 - Senate: Reading of amendment waived
  • 02/12/2019 - Senate: Amendment by Senator Petersen agreed to
  • 02/12/2019 - Senate: Engrossed by Senate as amended
  • 02/12/2019 - Senate: Passed Senate with amendment (39-Y 0-N 1-A)
  • 02/14/2019 - House: Placed on Calendar
  • 02/14/2019 - House: Senate amendment agreed to by House (96-Y 1-N)
  • 02/14/2019 - House: VOTE: ADOPTION (96-Y 1-N)
  • 02/19/2019 - House: Enrolled
  • 02/19/2019 - House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB2170ER)
  • 02/19/2019 - House: Impact statement from DPB (HB2170ER)
  • 02/19/2019 - House: Signed by Speaker
  • 02/20/2019 - Senate: Signed by President
  • 02/21/2019 - House: Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on February 21, 2019
  • 02/21/2019 - Governor: Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, March 26, 2019
  • 03/18/2019 - Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 476 (effective 7/1/19)
  • 03/18/2019 - Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0476)

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