BILL · 2007–08 SESSION

HB 1428: Homicide by abuse

Protecting children under the age of seven by creating the crime of homicide by abuse in the second degree.

Summary

Declares that a person is guilty of homicide by abuse in the second degree when he or she, under circumstances not amounting to homicide by abuse in the first degree, recklessly causes the death of a child under seven years of age. Provides that homicide by abuse in the second degree is a class A felony.

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Did not pass Did not pass · died in committee

AN ACT Relating to protecting children under the age of seven by creating the crime of homicide by abuse in the second degree;

No recorded floor votes. This measure never reached a floor vote.

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