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Vermont House advances stepped offenses for vehicle intrusion and reduces attempted-grand-larceny penalty
Summary
The House advanced House Bill 563, creating a stepped set of offenses for entering or operating another person’s vehicle without consent and reducing the penalty for attempted grand larceny; the measure was amended on the floor and ordered for third reading after committee presentations and testimony from law-enforcement groups.
Representative Burdett of West Rutland, speaking for the House judiciary committee, outlined changes in House Bill 563 on the House floor, saying the bill would create a series of offenses between trespass and grand larceny to address vehicle intrusions and attempted auto theft.
"The new subsection . . . establishes a new misdemeanor that someone knew or should have known they did not have consent to enter someone's vehicle yet did so anyway," Burdett explained…
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