2001 House Bill 5442 ↩

Senate Roll Call 421: Passed

To establish enhanced penalties for a person who assaults, batters or injures an individual authorized by law to maintain and preserve the peace, other than a peace officer, who is performing his or her duties. The bill also would clarify redundant language recently adopted in the new crime of "hindering the prosecution of terrorism by knowingly rendering criminal assistance to a person who has committed an act of terrorism." The phrase "who has committed an act of terrorism" is removed, since "criminal assistance" is defined in the same law to only apply to a person who has committed an act of terrorism.