Bill Text: MO HB2082 | 2010 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Prohibits an offender in the custody of the Department of Corrections from making a false report against any department employee for the purpose of implicating an employee in a crime

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2010-04-20 - Referred: Rules - Pursuant to Rule 25(32)(f) (H) [HB2082 Detail]

Download: Missouri-2010-HB2082-Introduced.html

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SECOND REGULAR SESSION

HOUSE BILL NO. 2082

95TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY

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INTRODUCED BY REPRESENTATIVES FISCHER (107) (Sponsor), BROWN (50) AND HARRIS (Co-sponsors).

4671L.01I                                                                                                                                                  D. ADAM CRUMBLISS, Chief Clerk

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AN ACT

To amend chapter 217, RSMo, by adding thereto one new section relating to an offender making a false report against an employee of the department of corrections, with a penalty provision.

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Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the state of Missouri, as follows:

            Section A. Chapter 217, RSMo, is amended by adding thereto one new section, to be known as section 217.387, to read as follows:

            217.387. 1. No offender shall make a false report against any employee of the department by knowingly giving false information to an employee of the department for the purpose of implicating any employee of the department in a crime.

            2. It is a defense to a prosecution under subsection 1 of this section that the offender retracted the false information before any employee of the department took substantial action in reliance thereon.

            3. The offender shall have the burden of injecting the issue of retraction under subsection 2 of this section.

            4. Violation of subsection 1 of this section is a class D felony.

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