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2021 SPECIAL SESSION I

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HB 2132 Homicides and assaults and bodily woundings; certain matters not to constitute defenses.

Introduced by: Danica A. Roem | all patrons    ...    notes | add to my profiles

SUMMARY AS PASSED: (all summaries)

Homicides and assaults and bodily woundings; certain matters not to constitute defenses. Provides that another person's actual or perceived sex, gender, gender identity, or sexual orientation is not in and of itself, or together with an oral solicitation, a defense to any charge of capital murder, murder in the first degree, murder in the second degree, voluntary manslaughter, or assault and bodily wounding-related crimes and is not provocation negating or excluding malice as an element of murder.


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