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Committee adopts amendment and advances bill changing reckless-driving threshold
Summary
The committee adopted an amendment to Senate Bill 113 that removes a 100-mph threshold and makes reckless driving uniformly '35 mph over' the posted limit; the committee then voted to pass the bill favorably to the floor.
Adam briefed the committee on Senate Bill 113, explaining the bill would create a reckless-driving defense where a person operates a motor vehicle at 100 mph or more or 35 mph or more over the posted speed limit and would exclude those violations from mandatory license revocation.
Senator Peterson offered an amendment to strike the 100-mph threshold and leave a single standard of 35 mph over the posted speed limit for consistency. "What this amendment does is it strikes a 100 mile an hour and leaves it all at 35 mile an hour over for consistency throughout," the chair said when moving the amendment.
Senator Dietrich questioned whether the change meaningfully affected enforcement on high-speed roads and expressed concern that even 100 mph is excessive on certain turnpikes. After brief discussion, the committee adopted the chair’s amendment by voice vote. The chair recorded the ayes as prevailing; the transcript contains no numerical roll-call tally.
Senator Cleese moved to pass Senate Bill 113 out favorably as amended; after a second and a short procedural restart, the committee voted and the motion carried. The bill will go to the floor for further consideration.
The committee’s action advanced SB 113 with the uniform 35-mph-over standard; the transcript records voice votes but does not provide individual vote tallies.
