Text: HF02223 Text: HF02225 Text: HF02200 - HF02299 Text: HF Index Bills and Amendments: General Index Bill History: General Index
PAG LIN 1 1 Section 1. Section 708.7, subsection 1, paragraph a, 1 2 subparagraph (1), Code 1999, is amended to read as follows: 1 3 (1) Communicates with another by telephone, telegraph,or1 4 writing, or via the internet without legitimate purpose and in 1 5 a manner likely to cause the other person annoyance or harm. 1 6 EXPLANATION 1 7 This bill amends Code section 708.7, relating to the crime 1 8 of harassment, to include communications made via the 1 9 internet. 1 10 Harassment varies by degree, according to the type of 1 11 threat communicated. 1 12 A person commits harassment in the first degree when the 1 13 person commits harassment involving a threat to commit a 1 14 forcible felony, or commits harassment and has previously been 1 15 convicted of harassment three or more times under Code section 1 16 708.7 or any similar statute during the preceding 10 years. 1 17 Harassment in the first degree is an aggravated misdemeanor. 1 18 An aggravated misdemeanor is punishable by confinement for no 1 19 more than two years and a fine of at least $500, but not more 1 20 than $5,000. 1 21 A person commits harassment in the second degree when the 1 22 person commits harassment involving a threat to commit bodily 1 23 injury, or commits harassment and has previously been 1 24 convicted of harassment two times under Code section 708.7 or 1 25 any similar statute during the preceding 10 years. Harassment 1 26 in the second degree is a serious misdemeanor. A serious 1 27 misdemeanor is punishable by confinement for no more than one 1 28 year and a fine of at least $250, but not more than $1,500. 1 29 Any other act of harassment is harassment in the third 1 30 degree. Harassment in the third degree is a simple 1 31 misdemeanor. A simple misdemeanor is punishable by 1 32 confinement for no more than 30 days or a fine of at least $50 1 33 but not more than $500, or by both. 1 34 LSB 5025YH 78 1 35 jj/as/5
Text: HF02223 Text: HF02225 Text: HF02200 - HF02299 Text: HF Index Bills and Amendments: General Index Bill History: General Index
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