General Assembly Proposed Bill No. 6145
January Session, 2011 LCO No. 156
Referred to Committee on Transportation
Introduced by:
REP. MILLER L., 122nd Dist.
General Assembly
Proposed Bill No. 6145
January Session, 2011
LCO No. 156
Referred to Committee on Transportation
Introduced by:
REP. MILLER L., 122nd Dist.
AN ACT INCREASING THE PENALTIES FOR TEXTING OR ILLEGAL CELL PHONE USE WHILE OPERATING A MOTOR VEHICLE.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Assembly convened:
That the general statutes be amended to provide that any person operating a motor vehicle who causes a motor vehicle accident because such person was using a hand-held mobile telephone illegally to engage in a call or using a mobile electronic device to type, send or read a text message shall be guilty of a felony, and that the operator's license of any such person who causes a second such accident shall be suspended for not less than six months.
Statement of Purpose:
To increase penalties for texting or illegal cell phone use while operating a motor vehicle.