SF0134 • 2005

Homicide during pregnancy.

AN ACT relating to homicide; establishing the offense of homicide of an unborn child when mother is murdered; imposing a penalty; and providing for an effective date.

Did Not Pass

The latest official action shows that this bill did not move forward in that session.

Sponsor: Senator Barrasso
Last action: 2005-03-03
Official status: inactive
Effective date: Not listed

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Bill History

2005-03-03 Wyoming Legislature
Died In Committee
2005-01-18 Senate
S Introduced and Referred to S01; No Report Prior to CoW Cutoff
2005-01-18 Senate
S Received for Introduction
2005-01-17 LSO
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WORKING DRAFT
2005
STATE OF WYOMING
05LSO-0297

SENATE FILE
NO.
SF0134

Homicide during pregnancy.

Sponsored by:
Senator(s) Barrasso and Representative(s) Brechtel and Lubnau

A BILL

for

AN ACT relating to homicide; establishing the offense of homicide of an unborn child when mother is murdered; imposing a penalty; and providing for an effective date.

Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Wyoming:

Section 1.
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Homicide of an unborn child; penalty.

Whoever willfully and deliberately kills any pregnant woman, knowing that the woman is pregnant and thereby causes the involuntary termination of the woman's pregnancy without a live birth is guilty of homicide of an unborn child, and shall be imprisoned in the penitentiary for any term not less than twenty (20) years.

Section 2.

This act is effective July 1, 2005.

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