BILL · 1997–98 SESSION
SB 5302: Sleeping driver homicide
Penalizing sleeping-driver homicide.
Summary
- Declares that, when the death of a person ensues within three years as a proximate result of injury proximately caused by the driving of a vehicle by a person, the driver is guilty of sleeping-driver homicide if, under circumstances not constituting vehicular homicide, the driver: (1) Fell asleep while operating a motor vehicle; and (2) the circumstances leading up to the accident would have indicated to a…
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Did not pass Did not pass · died in committee
- IntroducedJan 22, 1997
- Out of committeestopped here
- Passed Senate
- Passed House
- Governor
- Law
- Prime sponsor
- Jeanine Long (R-44)
- Introduced
- January 22, 1997 in the Senate
- Last action
- January 12, 1998
Sponsors
Prime sponsor: Jeanine Long (R-44)
2 co-sponsors (0 Democrats, 2 Republicans)
Votes
No recorded floor votes. This measure never reached a floor vote.
History
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SB 5302 in other sessions
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