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  1  1    Section 1.  Section 718.6, Code 1995, is amended to read as
  1  2 follows:
  1  3    718.6  FALSE REPORTS TO LAW ENFORCEMENT AUTHORITIES OR
  1  4 COMMUNICATIONS WITH PUBLIC SAFETY ENTITIES.
  1  5    1.  A person who reports or causes to be reported false
  1  6 information to a fire department, or a law enforcement
  1  7 authority, or other public safety entity, knowing that the
  1  8 information is false, or who reports the alleged occurrence of
  1  9 a criminal act knowing the same act did not occur, commits a
  1 10 simple misdemeanor, unless the alleged criminal act reported
  1 11 is a serious or aggravated misdemeanor or felony, in which
  1 12 case the person commits a serious misdemeanor.
  1 13    2.  A person who telephones an emergency 911 communications
  1 14 center and terminates the call without providing emergency
  1 15 information or telephones an emergency 911 communications
  1 16 center knowing that the person is not reporting an emergency
  1 17 or otherwise needing emergency information or assistance
  1 18 commits a simple misdemeanor.
  1 19    3.  A person who provides false information on a citation
  1 20 commits a simple misdemeanor, unless the criminal act for
  1 21 which the citation is issued is a serious or aggravated
  1 22 misdemeanor or felony, in which case the person commits a
  1 23 serious misdemeanor.
  1 24    Sec. 2.  EFFECTIVE DATE.  This Act shall not take effect
  1 25 unless an appropriation is enacted or the state's share of the
  1 26 cost is specified in accordance with section 25B.2, subsection
  1 27 3.  
  1 28                           EXPLANATION
  1 29    This bill provides that a person who makes a false report
  1 30 to a fire department, law enforcement agency, or other public
  1 31 safety entity commits a serious misdemeanor if the false
  1 32 criminal act reported is a serious or aggravated misdemeanor
  1 33 or felony.  The bill also makes it a simple misdemeanor for a
  1 34 person to call an E911 communications center and hang up or to
  1 35 call knowingly not having an emergency.  The bill also
  2  1 provides that a person providing false information on a
  2  2 citation commits a simple misdemeanor unless the citation is
  2  3 for a serious or aggravated misdemeanor or felony, in which
  2  4 case, the penalty is a serious misdemeanor.
  2  5    The bill may provide a state mandate under chapter 25B and
  2  6 shall not take effect unless an appropriation is made fully
  2  7 funding the cost to political subdivisions of implementing
  2  8 this bill or specifying the state's share of the cost.  
  2  9 LSB 1707SS 76
  2 10 mk/sc/14.1
     
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