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HOUSE BILL NO. 175

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H0175................................by JUDICIARY, RULES AND ADMINISTRATION
LIBEL - Amends existing law to provide that the crime of libel can occur by
electronic means on the internet, electronic bulletin board, chat room,
message board or other place.
                                                                        
02/12    House intro - 1st rdg - to printing
02/13    Rpt prt - to Jud
02/16    Rpt out - rec d/p - to 2nd rdg
02/19    2nd rdg - to 3rd rdg
02/22    3rd rdg - PASSED - 67-0-3
      AYES -- Anderson, Andrus, Barrett, Bayer, Bell, Bilbao, Black, Block,
      Bock, Boe, Bolz, Brackett, Bradford, Chadderdon, Chavez, Chew, Clark,
      Collins, Crane, Durst, Edmunson, Eskridge, Hagedorn, Hart, Harwood,
      Henbest, Henderson, Jaquet, Killen, King, Kren, Labrador, Lake,
      LeFavour, Loertscher, Luker, Marriott, Mathews, McGeachin, Mortimer,
      Moyle, Nielsen, Nonini, Pasley-Stuart, Patrick, Pence, Raybould,
      Ring, Ringo, Roberts, Ruchti, Rusche, Sayler, Schaefer, Shepherd(2),
      Shepherd(8), Shirley, Shively, Smith(30), Smith(24), Thayn, Trail,
      Vander Woude, Wills, Wood(27), Wood(35), Mr. Speaker
      NAYS -- None
      Absent and excused -- Bedke, Snodgrass, Stevenson
    Floor Sponsor - Nielsen
    Title apvd - to Senate
02/23    Senate intro - 1st rdg - to Jud

Bill Text

                                                                        
                                                                        
  ]]]]              LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF IDAHO             ]]]]
 Fifty-ninth Legislature                   First Regular Session - 2007
                                                                        
                                                                        
                              IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
                                                                        
                                     HOUSE BILL NO. 175
                                                                        
                      BY JUDICIARY, RULES AND ADMINISTRATION COMMITTEE
                                                                        
  1                                        AN ACT
  2    RELATING TO THE CRIME OF LIBEL; AMENDING SECTION 18-4801, IDAHO CODE, TO  FUR-
  3        THER DEFINE "LIBEL."
                                                                        
  4    Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Idaho:
                                                                        
  5        SECTION  1.  That  Section 18-4801, Idaho Code, be, and the same is hereby
  6    amended to read as follows:
                                                                        
  7        18-4801.  LIBEL DEFINED. A libel  is  a  malicious  defamation,  expressed
  8    either  by  writing, printing, or by signs or pictures, or by electronic means
  9    on the internet, electronic bulletin board, chat room, message board  or other
 10    place, or the like, tending to blacken the memory of one who is  dead,  or  to
 11    impeach  the  honesty, integrity, virtue or reputation, or publish the natural
 12    or alleged defects, of one who is alive, and thereby to expose him  to  public
 13    hatred, contempt or ridicule.

Statement of Purpose / Fiscal Impact

                       STATEMENT OF PURPOSE

                             RS 16904

This amendment includes in the matter of expression the new
electronic means of communication.


                           FISCAL NOTE
None.



Contact
Name: Representative Pete Nielsen 
Phone: 332-1000




STATEMENT OF PURPOSE/FISCAL NOTE                         H 175