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  1  1    Section 1.  Section 718.4, Code 1995, is amended to read as
  1  2 follows:
  1  3    718.4  HARASSMENT OF PUBLIC OFFICERS PUBLIC OFFICIALS AND
  1  4 PUBLIC EMPLOYEES.
  1  5    1.  Any A person who willfully prevents or attempts to
  1  6 prevent any a public officer official, as defined in section
  1  7 68B.2, or public employee, as defined in section 68B.2, from
  1  8 performing the officer's public official's or public
  1  9 employee's duty commits a simple misdemeanor.
  1 10    2.  A person who, in relation to the performance of an
  1 11 official duty by a public official, threatens, intimidates, or
  1 12 forcibly interferes with the public official, commits
  1 13 harassment of a public official.
  1 14    a.  A person commits harassment in the first degree when
  1 15 the person commits harassment of a public official involving a
  1 16 threat to commit a forcible felony or by forcibly interfering
  1 17 with a public official.  Harassment in the first degree is an
  1 18 aggravated misdemeanor.
  1 19    b.  A person commits harassment in the second degree when
  1 20 the person commits harassment of a public official involving a
  1 21 threat to commit bodily injury.  Harassment in the second
  1 22 degree is a serious misdemeanor.
  1 23    c.  Any other act of harassment of a public official is
  1 24 harassment in the third degree and is a simple misdemeanor.  
  1 25                           EXPLANATION
  1 26    The bill amends the section on harassment of public
  1 27 officers and employees by striking the terms "public officer"
  1 28 and "employee" and substituting "public official" and "public
  1 29 employee".  The bill uses the definitions of "public official"
  1 30 and "public employee" from section 68B.2 of the Code.  Section
  1 31 68B.2 defines "public official" to mean officials, local
  1 32 officials, and members of the general assembly.  Section 68B.2
  1 33 defines "public employee" to mean state employees, legislative
  1 34 employees, and local employees.  The terms "public officer"
  1 35 and "employee" in section 718.4 are currently not defined.
  2  1    The bill provides that a person who willfully prevents or
  2  2 attempts to prevent a public official or public employee from
  2  3 performing the public official's or public employee's duty
  2  4 commits a simple misdemeanor.
  2  5    The bill provides that a person who, in relation to the
  2  6 performance of an official duty by a public official,
  2  7 threatens, intimidates, or forcibly interferes with the public
  2  8 official, commits harassment of a public official.  The bill
  2  9 provides that harassment of a public official constitutes the
  2 10 crime of harassment in the first, second, or third degree.
  2 11 The criminal penalties for and the definitions of first,
  2 12 second, and third degree harassment in the bill are similar to
  2 13 those in section 708.7 of the Code dealing with harassment.  
  2 14 LSB 3204SV 76
  2 15 kah/jj/8
     
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