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STATE OF WYOMING
HOUSE BILL NO. HB0261
Breach of the peace within a health care facility.
Sponsored by: Representative(s) Washut, Chadwick, Crago,
Henderson, Lawley and Niemiec and Senator(s)
Kolb
A BILL
for
1 AN ACT relating to crimes and offenses; creating the
2 offense of breach of the peace within a health care
3 facility; providing penalties; providing a definition; and
4 providing for an effective date.
5
6 Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Wyoming:
7
8 Section 1. W.S. 6-6-102 by creating new subsections
9 (c) through (e) is amended to read:
10
11 6-6-102. Breach of the peace; breach of the peace
12 within a health care facility; penalties.
13
14 (c) A person commits breach of the peace within a
15 health care facility if he disturbs the peace of a health
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1 care facility or its occupants by unreasonably loud noise
2 or music or by using threatening, abusive or obscene
3 language or violent actions with knowledge or probable
4 cause to believe he will disturb the peace.
5
6 (d) Breach of the peace within a health care facility
7 is a misdemeanor punishable by imprisonment for not less
8 than one (1) day nor more than ninety (90) days, a fine of
9 not more than seven hundred fifty dollars ($750.00), or
10 both.
11
12 (e) As used in subsections (c) and (d) of this
13 section, "health care facility" means as defined in W.S.
14 35-2-901(a)(x) and shall include the office or facility of
15 a licensed doctor of medicine, chiropractor, osteopath,
16 dentist, optometrist, podiatrist, psychologist, physician's
17 assistant or advanced practitioner of nursing.
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19 Section 2. This act is effective July 1, 2023.
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21 (END)
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Statutes affected:
Introduced: 6-6-102