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Committee reduces penalty pathway for certain pre-2015 lifetime driving suspensions
Summary
House Bill 1554 (as amended) would reclassify some pre-2015 lifetime driving suspensions to a lower felony level to address disproportionate penalties for drivers whose suspensions predate 2015 criminal-code revisions; the committee passed the measure 13-0.
The House Courts and Criminal Code Committee voted 13-0 to pass House Bill 1554, a bill that would reduce the criminal classification for some individuals who currently face lifetime driver suspensions that stem from laws prior to the 2015 criminal-code reforms.
Representative Bascom said the statute change is intended to address a proportionality gap that left some people with lifetime suspensions based on older code…
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