The House Judiciary Committee voted last week to send several public safety measures to the full House for consideration, reports State Rep. Jim Cox (R-129).
The bills include:
- House Bill 2249, which makes it a crime for an individual who engages in online impersonation to create a web page or send an email or other electronic message by using the name or identifying information of another person, with the intent to harm, defraud, intimidate or deceive, without the person’s content.
- House Bill 2507, which would enhance sentencing for criminal activity related to criminal street gangs. Specific circumstances would trigger the enhancement, such as committing a crime of violence like drug trafficking or assault, where the offense was knowingly committed at the direction of a criminal street gang or if a person encouraged another to participate in the offense with a criminal street gang.
- Senate Bill 775, which would expand the state’s DNA database by requiring that a DNA sample be obtained from an individual within five days of arrest for a felony sex offense and other specified offense.