Bill Title: Organized retail theft. Makes it organized retail theft, a Level 6 felony, for a person to knowingly: (1) take, procure, receive, conceal, or otherwise exercise control over merchandise of a retail merchant; or (2) use an artifice, an instrument, a container, a device, or another article to facilitate taking, procuring, receiving, concealing, or exercising control over merchandise of a retail merchant; without the consent of the retail merchant or without paying the appropriate consideration for the merchandise, and with the intent to sell, deliver, or distribute the merchandise to another person. Makes organized retail theft, in certain circumstances, a Level

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-01-11 - First reading: referred to Committee on Courts and Criminal Code [HB1249 Detail]

Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

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Sponsors

Name	Type	Sponsorship	District	Financial	Encyclopedia	Biography
Representative Sharon Negele [R]	Primary	Sponsored Bills	HD-013	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart

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