Jack E. Sandlin
- Republican
Author
Establishes the low barrier homeless shelter task force. Beginning July 1, 2022: (1) allows a township trustee to place a homeless individual temporarily in a county home or provide temporary township assistance; and (2) requires the township trustees within a county to collaborate and prepare a list of public and private resources available to the homeless population that is distributed and published on the county's Internet web site, if the county has a web site, not later than March 1 of each year. Provides that a person commits the offense of criminal trespass if: (1) the person, who does not have a contractual interest in the property, knowingly or intentionally enters or refuses to leave the property of another person after having been prohibited from entering or asked to leave the property by a law enforcement officer when the property is designated by a municipality or county enforcement authority to be an unsafe building or premises; or (2) the person knowingly or intentionally enters the property of another person after being denied entry by a court order that has been issued to the person or issued to the general public by conspicuous posting on or around the premises in areas where a person can observe the order when the property has been designated by a municipality or county enforcement authority to be an unsafe building or premises; unless the person has the written permission of the owner, the owner's agent, an enforcement authority, or a court to come onto the property for purposes of performing maintenance, repair, or demolition. Provides that an individual who harasses another person with the intent to obtain property from the other person commits aggressive harassment, a Class C misdemeanor. Defines "harasses". Repeals the chapter concerning panhandling.
Signed by the Governor
Signed by the President of the Senate
Public Law 75
Signed by the Speaker
Signed by the President Pro Tempore
Senate concurred in House amendments; Roll Call 317: yeas 48, nays 0
Motion to concur filed
Returned to the Senate with amendments
Rule 105.1 suspended
Representative Ledbetter C added as cosponsor
Third reading: passed; Roll Call 314: yeas 92, nays 1
Representative Zent added as cosponsor
Representative Moed added as cosponsor
Representative Bauer M added as cosponsor
Second reading: ordered engrossed
Committee report: amend do pass, adopted
First reading: referred to Committee on Local Government
Referred to the House
Senator Niemeyer added as second author
House sponsor: Representative Pressel
Third reading: passed; Roll Call 127: yeas 46, nays 0
Senator Qaddoura added as coauthor
Senator Lanane added as coauthor
Second reading: ordered engrossed
Committee report: amend do pass, adopted
First reading: referred to Committee on Local Government
Authored by Senator Sandlin
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