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2001 SESSION
HB 2239 Motor vehicles; penalty for failure to stop at accident.
Introduced by: Barnie K. Day | all patrons ... notes | add to my profiles
SUMMARY AS ENACTED WITH GOVERNOR'S RECOMMENDATION: (all summaries)
Motor vehicles; penalty for failure to stop at accident. Provides that the penalty for failure to stop at a motor vehicle accident where a person was injured or killed or in which an attended vehicle or other property was damaged is a Class 5 felony. Under current law the penalty is a Class 1 misdemeanor if there is property damage only and a Class 6 felony if the accident results in injury or death.
FULL TEXT
- 01/10/01 House: Presented & ordered printed, prefiled 01/10/01 010524708 pdf | impact statements
- 01/16/01 House: Introduced bill reprinted 010524708 pdf | impact statements
- 02/24/01 House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB2239ER) pdf | impact statement
- 03/29/01 House: Governor's substitute printed 011988216-H1 pdf
- 04/05/01 House: Reenrolled bill text (HB2239ER2) pdf
- 04/09/01 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0808) pdf
AMENDMENTS
HISTORY
- 01/10/01 House: Presented & ordered printed, prefiled 01/10/01 010524708
- 01/10/01 House: Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
- 01/16/01 House: Introduced bill reprinted 010524708
- 01/17/01 House: Assigned to C. J. sub-committee: 1
- 02/03/01 House: Reported from Courts of Justice (22-Y 0-N)
- 02/03/01 House: Read first time
- 02/04/01 House: Read second time and engrossed
- 02/05/01 House: VOTE: BLOCK VOTE PASSAGE (97-Y 0-N)
- 02/05/01 House: Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (97-Y 0-N)
- 02/05/01 House: Reconsideration of passage agreed to by House
- 02/05/01 House: VOTE: BLOCK VOTE PASSAGE #2 (99-Y 0-N)
- 02/05/01 House: Passed House (99-Y 0-N)
- 02/05/01 House: Communicated to Senate
- 02/07/01 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed
- 02/07/01 Senate: Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
- 02/14/01 Senate: Reported from Courts of Justice w/amd (15-Y 0-N)
- 02/14/01 Senate: Rereferred to Finance
- 02/15/01 Senate: Reported from Finance (14-Y 0-N)
- 02/16/01 Senate: Const. reading disp., passed by for the day (39-Y 0-N)
- 02/16/01 Senate: VOTE: CONST. RDG. DISPENSED R (39-Y 0-N)
- 02/16/01 Senate: Reconsider motion to pass by for the day (38-Y 0-N)
- 02/16/01 Senate: VOTE: RECONSIDER R (38-Y 0-N)
- 02/16/01 Senate: Passed by for the day
- 02/19/01 Senate: Read third time
- 02/19/01 Senate: Reading of amendment waived
- 02/19/01 Senate: Committee amendment agreed to
- 02/19/01 Senate: Engrossed by Senate as amended
- 02/19/01 Senate: Passed Senate with amendment (40-Y 0-N)
- 02/19/01 Senate: VOTE: PASSAGE R (40-Y 0-N)
- 02/20/01 House: Placed on Calendar
- 02/21/01 House: VOTE: ADOPTION (98-Y 2-N)
- 02/21/01 House: Senate amendment agreed to by House (98-Y 2-N)
- 02/24/01 House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB2239ER)
- 03/02/01 House: Enrolled
- 03/02/01 House: Signed by Speaker
- 03/02/01 Senate: Signed by President
- 03/26/01 House: Governor's recommendation received by House
- 03/29/01 House: Governor's substitute printed 011988216-H1
- 04/04/01 House: Placed on Calendar
- 04/04/01 House: VOTE: ADOPTION (96-Y 0-N)
- 04/04/01 House: House concurred in Gov's recommendation (96-Y 0-N)
- 04/04/01 Senate: Senate concurred in Gov's recommendation (38-Y 1-N)
- 04/04/01 Senate: VOTE: ADOPT GOV. RECOMM. (38-Y 1-N)
- 04/04/01 Governor: Amended as sub. by Gov's recommendation 011988216-H1
- 04/04/01 House: Reenrolled
- 04/04/01 House: Signed by Speaker as reenrolled
- 04/04/01 Senate: Signed by President as reenrolled
- 04/04/01 House: Enacted, Chapter 808 (effective 7/1/01)
- 04/05/01 House: Reenrolled bill text (HB2239ER2)
- 04/09/01 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0808)