Text: HF02545 Text: HF02547 Text: HF02500 - HF02599 Text: HF Index Bills and Amendments: General Index Bill History: General Index
PAG LIN 1 1 HOUSE FILE 2546 1 2 1 3 AN ACT 1 4 CLASSIFYING THE CRIMINAL OFFENSE OF ASSAULT AS A GENERAL 1 5 INTENT CRIME. 1 6 1 7 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA: 1 8 1 9 Section 1. Section 708.1, unnumbered paragraph 1, and 1 10 subsections 1 through 3, Code 2001, are amended to read as 1 11 follows: 1 12 An assault as defined in this section is a general intent 1 13 crime. A person commits an assault when, without 1 14 justification, the person does any of the following: 1 15 1. Any act which is intended to cause pain or injury to, 1 16 or which is intended to result in physical contact which will 1 17 be insulting or offensive to another, coupled with the 1 18 apparent ability to execute the act. 1 19 2. Any act which is intended to place another in fear of 1 20 immediate physical contact which will be painful, injurious, 1 21 insulting, or offensive, coupled with the apparent ability to 1 22 execute the act. 1 23 3. Intentionally points any firearm toward another, or 1 24 displays in a threatening manner any dangerous weapon toward 1 25 another. 1 26 1 27 1 28 1 29 BRENT SIEGRIST 1 30 Speaker of the House 1 31 1 32 1 33 1 34 MARY E. KRAMER 1 35 President of the Senate 2 1 2 2 I hereby certify that this bill originated in the House and 2 3 is known as House File 2546, Seventy-ninth General Assembly. 2 4 2 5 2 6 2 7 MARGARET THOMSON 2 8 Chief Clerk of the House 2 9 Approved , 2002 2 10 2 11 2 12 2 13 THOMAS J. VILSACK 2 14 Governor
Text: HF02545 Text: HF02547 Text: HF02500 - HF02599 Text: HF Index Bills and Amendments: General Index Bill History: General Index
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