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2002 Regular Session

Senate Bill 406

AN ACT CONCERNING USE OF A COMPUTER TO COMMIT CRIMES AGAINST CHILDREN AND CRIMINAL INVESTIGATION TECHNOLOGY.

Did not become law. It stopped in the Senate's Judiciary Committee on March 25, 2002. The 2002 session has ended.

What it does

The synopsis the General Assembly published with the bill.

To expand the scope of the state's child pornography laws to include computer or electronically generated images or pictures; revise the penal code provisions for child pornography to prohibit the manufacture or distribution of child pornography; update wiretap and eavesdropping definitions to address interception of electronic communications; expand the list of offenses for which a wiretap order can be obtained to include manufacturing, distributing, importing or possessing child pornography or computer crime; include a provisions authorizing wiretaps without an order when there are exigent circumstances involving an immediate danger of death or serious physical injury provided than within forty-eight hours of the interception an order is obtained; authorize administrative subpoenas for Internet subscriber information and search warrants for content information; and provide for the issuance of orders by a state court for pen register (device recording numbers dialed and number of calls received), trap and trace (device recording incoming numbers) and mobile tracking device surveillance in accordance with federal law.

Sponsors

Who carried the bill in each chamber, and who signed on. Each name leads to the member's page.

In the Senate

In the House of Representatives

    2 co-sponsors

    John Stone Jr., Steven T. Mikutel

    Its course

    February 25 to March 25, 2002, on one scale. In the top row each mark is a day something happened; taller marks are busier days.

    Each committee stop sits inside its chamber.

    Every action8 actions on 5 days

    In the SenateFeb 25 to Mar 25 · stopped28 days

    Public Safety and Security CommitteeFeb 25 to Mar 710 days

    Judiciary CommitteeMar 7 to Mar 25 · stopped18 days

    Text

    Each version as the General Assembly printed it.

    l9n doesn't hold this bill's text yet.

    What happened

    In l9n's words, one line for each step. Every action as the General Assembly published it is below.

    In the Senate Feb 25 – Mar 25

    1. Feb 25Introduced and sent to Public Safety and Security Committee
    2. Mar 1Heard in Public Safety and Security Committee
    3. Mar 7Public Safety and Security Committee recommended a substitute for it and sent it to Judiciary Committee
    4. Mar 25Judiciary Committee took no action on it
    All 8 actions, as published
    1. Feb 25REF. TO JOINT COMM. ONBoth houses
    2. Mar 1PUBLIC HEARINGBoth houses
    3. Mar 7FILED WITH LCOBoth houses
    4. Mar 7Joint Favorable Substitute Change of ReferenceBoth houses
    5. Mar 12RPTD. OUT OF LCOBoth houses
    6. Mar 12FAV. CHG. OF REF., SEN. TO COMM. ONSenate
    7. Mar 12FAV. CHG. OF REF. HOUSE TO COMM. ONHouse of Representatives
    8. Mar 25No ActionBoth houses