SB122 — establish the crime of failure to summon aid for a suicide attempt and provide a penalty therefor.
What changed between bill versions as it moved through the Legislature.
The bill was extensively rewritten (hoghoused) to replace a general duty-to-assist-in-emergencies law with a specific crime targeting failure to summon aid during suicide attempts, narrowing the offense to Class 1 misdemeanor with limited defenses based on fear of harm, belief aid was already summoned, age under eighteen, or impossibility of summoning aid. This shifts the bill from creating broad emergency assistance obligations to addressing a specific public health crisis around suicide response.