HB 137 - Deadly Force in Self Defense - Wyoming Key Vote
Wayne Johnson voted Yea (Passage With Amendment) on this Legislation.
Timeline
- Executive Signed
- March 13, 2008
- House Concurrence Vote Passed
- March 6, 2008
- Senate Bill Passed
- March 5, 2008
- House Bill Passed
- Feb. 25, 2008
- Introduced
- Feb. 11, 2008
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Title: Deadly Force in Self Defense
Signed by Governor Dave Freudenthal
Title: Deadly Force in Self Defense
Vote Smart's Synopsis:
Vote to concur with senate amendments and pass a bill that grants individuals immunity from civil prosecution for the use of deadly force in defense of themselves, their property, their home, or others.
Highlights:
- Requires that the individual applying deadly force have a reasonable fear of imminent peril, death, or injury in order to claim civil immunity (sec. 1). - States that the excusable use of defensive of deadly force does not apply if (sec. 1):
- - the individual against whom the force is used has a right to be on the property
- the individual against whom the force is used is trying to remove a child, grandchild, or an anyone in their legal custody from the property
- the individual entering is an officer of the peace performing his/her official duties
Title: Deadly Force in Self Defense
Vote Smart's Synopsis:
Vote to pass a bill that grants individuals immunity from civil prosecution for the use of deadly force in defense of themselves, their property, their home, or others.
Highlights:
- Requires that the individual applying deadly force have a reasonable fear of imminent peril, death, or injury in order to claim civil immunity (sec. 1). - States that the excusable use of defensive of deadly force does not apply if (sec. 1):
- - the individual against whom the force is used has a right to be on the property
- the individual against whom the force is used is trying to remove a child, grandchild, or an anyone in their legal custody from the property
- the individual entering is an officer of the peace performing his/her official duties
Title: Deadly Force in Self Defense
Vote Smart's Synopsis:
Vote to pass a bill that grants individuals immunity from civil prosecution for the use of deadly force in defense of themselves, their property, their home, or others.
Highlights:
- Requires that the individual applying deadly force have a reasonable fear of imminent peril, death, or injury in order to claim civil immunity (sec. 1). - States that the excusable use of defensive of deadly force does not apply if (sec. 1):
- - the individual against whom the force is used has a right to be on the property
- the individual against whom the force is used is trying to remove a child, grandchild, or an anyone in their legal custody from the property
- the individual entering is an officer of the peace performing his/her official duties
Title: Deadly Force in Self Defense
- Cale Case (WY - R)
- Charles P. 'Pat' Childers (WY - R) (Out Of Office)
- Henry H. R. 'Hank' Coe (WY - R) (Out Of Office)
- Amy L. Edmonds (WY - R) (Out Of Office)
- Keith Marshall Gingery (WY - R) (Out Of Office)
- Allen M. Jaggi (WY - R) (Out Of Office)
- Kit Jennings (WY - R) (Out Of Office)
- Owen Petersen (WY - R) (Out Of Office)