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Committee approves amendment creating graduated penalties for deliberate custody noncompliance and false reports
Summary
Senate Bill 2186, as amended, establishes a graduated penalty structure — infractions escalating to misdemeanors — for deliberate refusals to comply with court-ordered custody or for knowingly filing false reports about a child; committee recommended the amended bill do pass.
The Senate Judiciary Committee adopted an amendment and voted to advance Senate Bill 2186, a bill that creates criminal penalties for willful, repeated refusal to comply with a court-ordered custody or visitation schedule and for knowingly making false reports alleging harm to a child.
Senator Lueck, sponsor of the amended measure, said the amendment was…
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