SHB 1241: Addressing harassment.
Signed into law: Chapter 292, Laws of 2024
- Sponsor
- Leavitt
- Introduced
- January 11, 2023
- Status
- C 292 L 24
- Last action
- Effective date 3/26/2024. (March 26, 2024)
- As of
- August 18, 2026, 2:01 AM Pacific, from the Legislature’s records
What this bill does
Modifies crimes of harassment and cyber harassment to cover conduct that is lewd or threatens bodily injury, property damage, confinement, or other malicious threats. Increases penalty for harassment of an election official to a class C felony. Allows election officials who are harassed to apply for the address confidentiality program.
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Floor votes
- House: 3rd Reading & Final Passage · March 8, 202390 yea · 7 nay · 1 not voting
- House: 3rd Reading & Final Passage · January 11, 202486 yea · 11 nay · 1 not voting
- House: Final Passage as Amended by the Senate · March 4, 202488 yea · 9 nay · 1 not voting
- Senate: 3rd Reading & Final Passage as Amended by the Senate · February 22, 202445 yea · 4 nay
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