General Assembly Proposed Bill No. 5550
January Session, 2013 LCO No. 1339
Referred to Committee on TRANSPORTATION
Introduced by:
REP. BOLINSKY, 106th Dist.
General Assembly
Proposed Bill No. 5550
January Session, 2013
LCO No. 1339
Referred to Committee on TRANSPORTATION
Introduced by:
REP. BOLINSKY, 106th Dist.
AN ACT CONCERNING THE PENALTIES FOR UNLAWFUL USE OF A MOBILE TELEPHONE OR ELECTRONIC DEVICE WHILE OPERATING A MOTOR VEHICLE.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Assembly convened:
That section 14-296aa of the general statutes, concerning the prohibition against the use of a mobile telephone or other electronic device while operating a motor vehicle, be amended to provide that the Commissioner of Motor Vehicles shall, for a second violation of said section 14-296aa by a person operating a motor vehicle, suspend such person's operator's license for forty-eight hours and, for a third or subsequent violation of said section, suspend such person's operator's license for thirty days.
Statement of Purpose:
To increase the penalties for distracted driving by suspending the operator's license of repeat offenders.