File Code: Criminal Law - Procedure
Crossfiled with: HOUSE BILL 783
- Sponsored By:
-
Senators Jacobs, Colburn, Haines, and Hooper
- Entitled:
-
Murder in the First Degree - Requirement for State to Seek the Death
Penalty - Dawn's Law
Requiring the State to seek the death penalty in any prosecution for
murder in the first degree that meets specified requirements unless
the victim's family indicates to the State that the family does not
want the State to seek the death penalty; and providing for the
application of the Act.
Senate Action
- 1/27
- First Reading Judicial Proceedings
- 2/5
- Hearing 2/20 at 1:00 p.m.
- 3/5
- Unfavorable Report by Judicial Proceedings
House Action
- No Action
- Sponsored by:
- Senator Nancy Jacobs, District 34
- Senator Richard F. Colburn, District 37
- Senator Larry E. Haines, District 5
- Senator J. Robert Hooper, District 35
- Bill indexed under the following Subjects:
- CRIMES AND PUNISHMENTS -see also- PENALTIES; SENTENCES; etc.
- DEATH PENALTY
- LOCAL GOVERNMENT MANDATES
- MURDER
- PENALTIES
- SENTENCES -see also- DEATH PENALTY
- VICTIMS -see also- CRIMINAL INJURIES COMPENSATION
- Bill affects the following Statutes:
- Criminal Law
- (
2-201 ,
2-202 ,
2-202.1 ,
2-203 ,
2-304
)
- Bill Text:
First Reading (PDF),
Third Reading, Enrolled
- Fiscal Note:
Available (PDF)
- Amendments:
None offered
