HB2079: Assault and battery against a family or household member; prior conviction, second offense sentence.

Legislative Summary

Assault and battery against a family or household member; prior conviction; second offense. Provides that upon a conviction for assault and battery against a family or household member where it is alleged in the warrant, petition, information, or indictment on which a person is convicted that such person has been previously convicted of an offense that occurred within a period of 10 years of the instant offense against a family or household member of (i) assault and battery against a family or household member, (ii) malicious wounding or unlawful wounding, (iii) aggravated malicious wounding, (iv) malicious bodily injury by means of a substance, (v) strangulation, or (vi) an offense under the law of any other jurisdiction that has the same elements of any of the offenses listed in clauses (i) through (v), such person is guilty of a Class 1 misdemeanor, and the sentence of such person shall include a mandatory minimum term of confinement of 30 days.