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Conference committee adopts amendment to report distracted-driving as two-point offense on driving record
Summary
A conference committee considering House Bill 12-29 voted to adopt an amendment that would raise a distracted-driving offense from 0 points to 2 points on the state driving-record system and remove automatic public reporting of violations worth one point or less.
A conference committee considering House Bill 12-29 voted to adopt an amendment that would raise a distracted-driving offense from 0 points to 2 points on the state driving-record system and remove automatic public reporting of violations worth one point or less.
The change, offered as an amendment to HB 12-29 and moved and seconded during the committee session, would make the distracted-driving violation reportable to insurance (by virtue of being 2 points) and would prevent most 0- and 1-point offenses from being placed on the public-facing portion of a driver's record maintained by the Department of Transportation (DOT).
Chairman Koppelman, who presented the amendment spreadsheet the committee had been reviewing, said the amendment…
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