| (2) |
Except as described in Subsection (3), a person is guilty of a class A misdemeanor if the person, with intent to hinder, delay, or prevent a legislative proceeding:
| (a) |
provides a person with a weapon; |
| (b) |
prevents a person, by force, intimidation, or deception, from performing any act that might aid the legislative proceeding; |
| (c) |
alters, destroys, conceals, or removes any item or other thing; |
| (d) |
makes, presents, or uses an item, document, or thing known by the person to be false; |
| (e) |
makes a false material statement, not under oath, to:
| (i) |
the Legislature, or a house, committee, subcommittee, or task force of the Legislature; or |
| (ii) |
an employee or independent contractor of an entity described in Subsection (2)(e)(i); |
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| (f) |
harbors or conceals a person; |
| (g) |
provides a person with transportation, disguise, or other means of avoiding discovery or service of process; |
| (h) |
warns any person of impending discovery or service of process; |
| (i) |
conceals an item, information, document, or thing that is not privileged after a legislative subpoena is issued for the item, information, document, or thing; or |
| (j) |
provides false information regarding a witness or a material aspect of the legislative proceeding. |
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