Amend the bill by striking out everything after the enacting clause and before the summary and inserting the following:

summary

This amendment is the majority report of the committee and replaces the bill. The amendment repeals the civil violation of creating a police standoff that exists in the Maine Revised Statutes, Title 25 and enacts a Class E crime of creating a police standoff in Title 17-A. The amendment provides that a person is guilty of creating a police standoff when the person is barricaded as a result of the person's own actions, including when the person barricades himself or herself in a vehicle, is or claims to be armed with a dangerous weapon, is instructed by law enforcement to leave the barricaded location and fails to leave within 1/2 hour. The amendment does not include the provision from the repealed law that relates to restitution since restitution will be available with regard to the new Class E crime for economic loss incurred for police costs as an emergency response under Title 17-A, chapter 54.