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Subcommittee hears proposal to create felony reckless-driving offense; committee agrees to draft clarifying amendment
Summary
Senate bill S.208 would add a felony reckless-driving offense and raise penalties for reckless vehicular homicide. Witnesses and senators discussed mens rea standards, enumerated factors (speed, passengers, distracted driving) and implementation details; committee voted to carry the bill over to allow drafting of an amendment.
A Senate Judiciary subcommittee heard testimony on S.208, a proposal to add a felony reckless-driving offense and to increase penalties for reckless vehicular homicide.
Sponsor Senator Massey told the panel the bill would raise the maximum fine for reckless vehicular homicide to $15,000 and increase the maximum prison term to 15 years. The proposed new felony reckless-driving offense would apply where an incident caused great bodily injury to the driver or others and the driver “drove in a manner that was in reckless disregard to other safety,” with a…
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