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• Introduced by Sen. Dana Dow (R) on January 23, 2007, this bill makes a person with specific knowledge of the perpetrator of an act of a false public alarm an accomplice to the crime of false public alarm if that person does not notify authorities within 24 hours of obtaining knowledge of the crime. This bill also prohibits a person under 18 years of age who is convicted of or adjudicated as having committed a false public alarm from possessing a driver's license or instruction permit or attending a driver education program until the July 1st subsequent to the person's 18th birthday and directs the Department of Education to require every elementary and secondary school to post notice of these provisions.
  • Referred to the Criminal Justice and Public Safety Committee on January 23, 2007.
• Failed in the Senate by voice vote on March 21, 2007, the senate/or house decided against further actions and the bill is dead.