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Committee Agrees to Amendment Restoring Higher Mental State and Raising Victim Age in House Bill 47
Summary
The House Judiciary Committee accepted an amendment to House Bill 47 during its third hearing to change the required mental state from reckless to knowing and to raise the protected victim age from 13 to 18; the amendment was adopted by unanimous consent.
Chair Thomas and members of the House Judiciary Committee agreed by unanimous consent to an amendment to House Bill 47 during the bill's third hearing.
The amendment, offered by Representative Josh Williams, would change the mens rea provision in HB 47 from "reckless" back to "knowing," matching the bill's original language, and would raise the statutory victim-age threshold from 13 to 18. "Chair Thomas, I move to amend House Bill 47 with amendment number 0 4 0 0," Williams said when he made the motion. After brief discussion the chair put the question and, "If there's, seeing no objections, the motion is agreed to and the amendment shall become part of the bill," Chair Thomas said.
The committee did not take a roll-call vote; the record shows the amendment was adopted by unanimous consent and the chairman then closed the third hearing on the bill. No further committee action on the bill was recorded in the transcript.
The committee also approved the minutes from its previous meeting by unanimous consent at the start of the session.
