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HB 296 Eluding police; penalty.

Introduced by: Israel D. O'Quinn | all patrons    ...    notes | add to my profiles

SUMMARY AS INTRODUCED:

Eluding police; penalty. 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 the person 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 another person and the law-enforcement officer suffers serious bodily injury as a direct and proximate result of the pursuit, the person is guilty of a Class 4 felony. Under current law, the law-enforcement officer must be killed in order for the Class 4 felony to apply.

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• 01/04/16  House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/13/16 16103082D  pdf | impact statements

HISTORY

• 01/04/16  House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/13/16 16103082D
• 01/04/16  House: Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
• 02/16/16  House: Left in Courts of Justice