BILL · 2017–18 SESSION · LATEST VERSION SSB 5648
SB 5648: Vehicular homicide
Concerning vehicular homicide.
Summary
- Clarifies that a driver may be guilty of vehicular homicide if the driver was operating a motor vehicle while impaired by fatigue.
- Defines impaired by fatigue to include a person who drives while having been without sleep for twenty-four consecutive hours.
- Requires the Department of Licensing to revoke the driver's license of any driver convicted of vehicular homicide for a period of five years.
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Did not pass Did not pass · stalled on the Senate floor
- IntroducedFeb 1, 2017
- Out of committeeJan 12, 2018
- Passed Senatestopped here
- Passed House
- Governor
- Law
- Prime sponsor
- Christine Rolfes (D-23)
- Introduced
- February 1, 2017 in the Senate
- Last action
- February 22, 2018
- Budget
- Has a fiscal note
- Versions
- SB 5648, SSB 5648
AN ACT Relating to vehicular homicide, barring use of the defense of driving while under fatigue, drowsiness, or sleep, and increasing the time period for license suspension;
Sponsors
Prime sponsor: Christine Rolfes (D-23)
Votes
No recorded floor votes.
History
- Senate Rules "X" file. (SSB 5648)
- Senate Rules "X" file.
- Passed to Rules Committee for second reading. (SSB 5648)
- Passed to Rules Committee for second reading.
- LAW - Majority; 1st substitute bill be substituted, do pass. (SSB 5648)
- Minority; do not pass. (SSB 5648)
- Minority; do not pass.
- LAW - Majority; 1st substitute bill be substituted, do pass.
- By resolution, reintroduced and retained in present status.
- By resolution, reintroduced and retained in present status.
- By resolution, reintroduced and retained in present status.
- By resolution, reintroduced and retained in present status.
- First reading, referred to Law & Justice.
SB 5648 in other sessions
Bill numbers restart every two years, so the same number is a different bill in each session.
- SB 5648 (2025–26) ABLE accounts
- SB 5648 (2023–24) Board of education waivers
- SB 5648 (2021–22) Accessory dwelling units
- SB 5648 (2019–20) Hospitals/ARNPs & PAs
- SB 5648 (2015–16) Patient bill of rights
- SB 5648 (2013–14) Energy conservation
- SB 5648 (2011–12) Direct sales of milk
- SB 5648 (2009–10) Sex offender residences