2004 Senate Bill 1009 ↩

House Roll Call 400: Passed

To define "false pretense" in the criminal fraud law. "False pretense" would mean a false or fraudulent representation, writing, communication, statement, or message that the maker knows is false or fraudulent. This could be a representation about a past or existing fact or circumstance, or about the intention to perform or have performed a future event. A recent state Supreme Court decision determined that the current fraud statute does not cover this, and invited the legislature to change the law to do so.