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House declines to restore drug-enhancement language to automobile-homicide bill; sends dispute to conference committee
Summary
After hours of debate over whether to restore drug-based sentence enhancements to Senate Bill 7 (automobile homicide), the Utah House rejected a motion to receive House amendments and then authorized a conference committee to resolve differences.
SALT LAKE CITY — The Utah House on Feb. 21 declined to restore drug-based penalty language to Senate Bill 7, the automobile-homicide measure, and instead authorized a conference committee to resolve the dispute between the chambers.
Representative Wallace, the motion’s sponsor, asked members to "receive from the House amendments" so the House would return the bill to the original Senate language and reinstate language that, in his view, "enhances the motor, the automobile homicide bill by, raising the penalties and including not only alcohol, but if there's a measurable amount... of illegal drugs within their system." Wallace told colleagues legal…
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