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HB 113 Disregarding signal to stop; endangerment of operation of law-enforcement officer, penalty.

Introduced by: R. Lee Ware, Jr. | all patrons    ...    notes | add to my profiles | history

SUMMARY AS PASSED:

Disregarding signal to stop; death of law-enforcement officer; penalties. Provides that if a law-enforcement officer pursues a person who has disregarded a law-enforcement officer's signal to stop his motor vehicle and drives in willful and wanton disregard of such signal so as to interfere with or endanger the operation of the law-enforcement vehicle or to endanger people and the law-enforcement officer is killed as a direct and proximate result of the pursuit, the person is guilty of a Class 4 felony. The bill also increases the penalty for disregarding a signal from a law-enforcement officer to stop or attempting to escape or elude a law-enforcement officer from a Class 3 misdemeanor to a Class 2 misdemeanor. This bill is identical to SB 368 (Watkins).

SUMMARY AS PASSED HOUSE:

Disregarding signal to stop; death of person; penalties.  Provides that if a law-enforcement officer is killed or suffers serious bodily injury, as a result of the actions of a driver who has disregarded an officer's signal to stop his motor vehicle and who operates his motor vehicle in a willful and wanton disregard of such signal so as to interfere with or endanger the operation of the law-enforcement vehicle or endanger a person, the driver is guilty of a Class 4 felony.  The bill also increases the penalty for disregarding a signal from a law-enforcement officer to stop or attempting to escape or elude a law-enforcement officer from a Class 3 misdemeanor to a Class 1 misdemeanor.

SUMMARY AS INTRODUCED:

Disregarding signal to stop; death of person; penalties.  Provides that if a person is killed, whether as the direct or indirect result of the actions of a driver who has disregarded an officer's signal to stop his motor vehicle and who operates his motor vehicle in a willful and wanton disregard of such signal so as to interfere with or endanger the operation of the law-enforcement vehicle or endanger a person, the driver is guilty of a Class 4 felony.  The bill also increases the penalty for disregarding a signal from a law-enforcement officer to stop or attempting to escape or elude a law-enforcement officer from a Class 3 misdemeanor to a Class 1 misdemeanor.