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Committee backs amendments to align uninsured-driving and low-level school-zone penalties
Summary
The House Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice Committee voted to favorably recommend HB24, which aligns uninsured-driving statutes into a class C misdemeanor and reduces first-time low-level school‑zone speeding (20–29 mph over) to an infraction to reduce court burden; the substitute and technical amendment were adopted.
The House Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice Committee on March 4 voted to favorably recommend HB24, a package of criminal-penalty amendments that sponsors say will align statutes and reduce unnecessary court appearances.
Sponsor(s) told the committee the bill consolidates two provisions that have been used interchangeably to charge drivers for operating without insurance and makes lack of insurance a class…
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