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Committee declines to advance change making physical injury during a riot a felony; bill held for further work
Summary
The Senate Judiciary and Rules Committee declined to advance House Bill 125, which would have added physical injury as a basis to elevate riot to a felony, and instead held the bill for further refinement after law‑enforcement testimony and member concerns.
BOISE, Idaho — The Senate Judiciary and Rules Committee considered House Bill 125, a proposal to add "physical injury" as a qualifying element that would elevate riot to a felony, but a motion to send the bill to the fourteenth order for possible amendment failed and the bill was subsequently held in committee for further work.
Representative Jaren Crane, R‑Nampa, introduced the bill, saying current law (Title 18, Chapter 64) lists three subparts defining riot: (a) physical injury to a person; (b) damage or destruction to public or private property; and (c) disturbance of the peace. Crane said penalties already attach to disturbance of the peace and property destruction but "we do not...have any penalties assigned to physical injury of a person" within the riot statute and that concern was brought to him by the Nampa Police Department.
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