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2019 SESSION

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SB 1466 Unattended children in motor vehicles; penalty.

Introduced by: Jill Holtzman Vogel | all patrons    ...    notes | add to my profiles

SUMMARY AS INTRODUCED:

Unattended children in motor vehicles; penalty. Provides that any person responsible for the care of a child who leaves an unattended child in a motor vehicle where (i) the child's health, safety, and well-being are at risk or (ii) the vehicle's engine is on or running is guilty of a Class 1 misdemeanor. The bill authorizes any law-enforcement officer who observes or is alerted to the existence of an unattended child to use whatever means are reasonably necessary to protect the child and defines "unattended child" as a child four years of age or younger who has been left in a motor vehicle by the person responsible for his care when such person is unable to continuously observe the child, unless a person 12 years of age or older is physically present in the motor vehicle with the child.

FULL TEXT

• 01/08/19  Senate: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/19 19100849D  pdf

HISTORY

• 01/08/19  Senate: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/19 19100849D
• 01/08/19  Senate: Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
• 01/14/19  Senate: Passed by indefinitely in Courts of Justice (11-Y 3-N)