HB1590
Telephone, digital pager, or other device; causing to ring or signal with intent to annoy, penalty.
Summary
As Passed House of Origin. Causing a telephone or other device to signal with intent to annoy; emergency communications; penalty.
Modernizes the statute prohibiting harassment of emergency personnel in the performance of their duties by causing a telephone to ring to include a prohibition on causing any other device to signal with the intent to annoy, harass, hinder, or delay such emergency personnel. This bill is identical to SB 1034.-
Bill History
- 01/06/2023 - House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/23 23100630D
- 01/06/2023 - House: Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
- 01/17/2023 - House: Impact statement from DPB (HB1590)
- 01/17/2023 - House: Assigned Courts sub: Subcommittee #1
- 01/18/2023 - House: House subcommittee amendments and substitutes offered
- 01/18/2023 - House: Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (8-Y 0-N)
- 01/23/2023 - House: Reported from Courts of Justice with substitute (19-Y 0-N)
- 01/23/2023 - House: Committee substitute printed 23104900D-H1
- 01/25/2023 - House: Read first time
- 01/26/2023 - House: Read second time
- 01/26/2023 - House: Committee substitute agreed to 23104900D-H1
- 01/26/2023 - House: Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB1590H1
- 01/27/2023 - House: Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (98-Y 0-N)
- 01/27/2023 - House: VOTE: Block Vote Passage (98-Y 0-N)
- 01/30/2023 - House: Impact statement from DPB (HB1590H1)
- 01/30/2023 - Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed
- 01/30/2023 - Senate: Referred to Committee on the Judiciary
- 02/08/2023 - Senate: Reported from Judiciary (11-Y 0-N)
- 02/10/2023 - Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N)
- 02/13/2023 - Senate: Read third time
- 02/13/2023 - Senate: Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N)
- 02/16/2023 - House: Enrolled
- 02/16/2023 - House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1590ER)
- 02/16/2023 - House: Impact statement from DPB (HB1590ER)
- 02/16/2023 - House: Signed by Speaker
- 02/16/2023 - Senate: Signed by President
- 03/02/2023 - House: Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 2, 2023
- 03/02/2023 - Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 27, 2023
- 03/22/2023 - Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 201 (effective 7/1/23)
- 03/22/2023 - Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0201)
