Bill Text: IA SF2321 | 2017-2018 | 87th General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: A bill for an act relating to persons going armed with portable devices or weapons that direct an electronic current, and providing penalties. (Formerly SSB 3101.) Effective 7-1-18.

Spectrum: Committee Bill

Status: (Passed) 2018-04-16 - Signed by Governor. S.J. 946. [SF2321 Detail]

Download: Iowa-2017-SF2321-Introduced.html

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Senate File 2321 - Introduced




                                 SENATE FILE       
                                 BY  COMMITTEE ON JUDICIARY

                                 (SUCCESSOR TO SSB
                                     3101)

                                      A BILL FOR

  1 An Act excluding persons going armed with certain portable
  2    devices or weapons that direct an electric current from
  3    the criminal offense of carrying weapons under certain
  4    circumstances.
  5 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:
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  1  1    Section 1.  Section 724.4, subsection 4, Code 2018, is
  1  2 amended by adding the following new paragraph:
  1  3    NEW PARAGRAPH.  l.  A person who goes armed with a dangerous
  1  4 weapon that directs an electric current, impulse, wave, or beam
  1  5 that produces a high=voltage pulse designed to immobilize a
  1  6 person, as long as such a dangerous weapon does not generate a
  1  7 projectile that directs an electric current, impulse, wave, or
  1  8 beam that produces a high=voltage pulse designed to immobilize
  1  9 a person, and such a dangerous weapon is not used in the
  1 10 commission of a public offense.
  1 11                           EXPLANATION
  1 12 The inclusion of this explanation does not constitute agreement with
  1 13 the explanation's substance by the members of the general assembly.
  1 14    This bill excludes persons going armed with certain
  1 15 portable devices or weapons that direct an electric current
  1 16 from the criminal offense of carrying weapons under certain
  1 17 circumstances.
  1 18    Under the bill, a person does not commit the criminal offense
  1 19 of carrying weapons if the person goes armed with a dangerous
  1 20 weapon that directs an electric current, impulse, wave, or beam
  1 21 that produces a high=voltage pulse designed to immobilize a
  1 22 person, as long as such a dangerous weapon does not generate
  1 23 a projectile that directs an electric current, impulse,
  1 24 wave, or beam that produces a high=voltage pulse designed to
  1 25 immobilize a person, and such dangerous weapon is not used in
  1 26 the commission of a public offense.
  1 27    Currently, such a person commits the criminal offense of
  1 28 carrying weapons which is an aggravated misdemeanor.  An
  1 29 aggravated misdemeanor is punishable by confinement for no more
  1 30 than two years and a fine of at least $625 but not more than
  1 31 $6,250.
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