1186 AMH BACK SHEL 2000795        Not Considered

HB 1186 - H AMDS 086 FAILED 3-11-97

By Representative Backlund

     On page 1, beginning on line 6, strike section 1

Renumber remaining sections consecutively and correct internal references accordingly and correct the title

     On page 2, beginning on line 28, strike lines 28 and 29 and insert: A(7) Fails to summon assistance for a victim of such person=s crime or juvenile offense.  AFails to summon assistance@ means:

     (a) He or she knows that another person has suffered or is about to suffer substantial bodily harm and is in need of assistance;

     (b) He or she could summon assistance to the person in need without danger to himself or herself and without interference with an important duty owed to a third party;

     (c) He or she fails to summon assistance to the person in need; and

     (d) Another person is not summoning assistance for the person in need.@

EFFECT: Deletes the new crime of failing to give reasonable assistance.  The new crime in the underlying bill does not require that the person be injured as a result of a crime or that the person who should have given assistance know that the person was injured as a result of a crime.  Under the amendment, the provisions of Afailing to summon assistance@ are incorporated into the definition of Arendering criminal assistance@ which already is a crime.  Under the amendment, a person may be found guilty of rendering criminal assistance if the person fails to summon assistance for an injured person but only if the person failed to summon assistance with intent to prevent the apprehension of a another person whom he or she knows committed a crime against the victim.