| HB 1799 | Enhances penalty for prior domestic abusers guilty of 3rd deg. assault/reporting homicides involving domestic violence |
SCS/HCS/HB 1799 - This act provides that a person commits the crime of assault in the third degree if the person knowingly causes physical contact with an incapacitated person that a reasonable person who is not incapacitated would consider offensive or provocative.
The act also provides that any person who has plead guilty
to or been found guilty of third degree assault more than two
times against any family or household member and is commits a
subsequent Class A misdemeanor assault in the third degree on a
family or household member is guilty of a Class D felony. Prior
and persistent domestic offenders are defined. Evidence of prior
domestic violence is admissible if committed within five years of
the current offense.
JOAN GUMMELS