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Heated testimony as committee considers 'Bobby’s Law' creating aggravated vehicular homicide offense
Summary
Representative Braxton Mitchell asked the Senate Judiciary Committee to approve House Bill 267, which would create an aggravated vehicular homicide offense for drivers with blood‑alcohol concentrations of 0.16 or greater who cause a death and would impose mandatory minimum prison time in many cases.
Representative Braxton Mitchell opened the hearing on House Bill 267, a bill to create an aggravated vehicular homicide offense for drivers who kill another person while operating a vehicle with a blood alcohol concentration of 0.16 or higher. The bill also would add a three‑year mandatory minimum in many cases and would limit courts’ ability to suspend execution of the first three years of a sentence except as already allowed under specified statutory exceptions.
Hundreds of Montanans — including multiple family members of people killed by intoxicated drivers — testified in favor. Elizabeth McBride, whose son Bobby was killed on March 11, 2023, described a…
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