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Committee adopts amendments and hears testimony on bills strengthening penalties for harm to blind pedestrians and service animals
Summary
Representative Vanderwall and Representative Tisdale presented House Bills 45-27 and 45-28; the committee adopted drafting amendments that raise the statutory penalty for gross negligence causing death of a blind person to align with Class C felonies and heard testimony from blind advocates and Leader Dogs recipients.
Representative Vanderwall and Representative Tisdale presented House Bills 45-27 and 45-28 to the House Health Policy Committee and the panel adopted amendments to correct drafting errors in statutory-penalty language before taking testimony.
On a motion to amend HB 45-27, the clerk recorded 15 yays, 0 nays, 0 passes; the amendment was adopted. On a separate motion to amend HB 45-28, the clerk recorded 15 yays, 0 nays, 0 passes; that amendment was adopted. The amendments changed the statutory penalty in the bills so that gross negligence causing the death of a blind person carries a penalty consistent with similar Class C felonies — up to 15 years — and established a penalty for killing a leader…
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