Connecticut 2013 Regular Session

Connecticut Senate Bill SB00191 Compare Versions

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1	1		General Assembly Committee Bill No. 191
2	2		January Session, 2013 LCO No. 3762
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4	4		Referred to Committee on TRANSPORTATION
5	5		Introduced by:
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8	8		General Assembly
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10	10		Committee Bill No. 191
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12	12		January Session, 2013
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14	14		LCO No. 3762
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18	18		Referred to Committee on TRANSPORTATION
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20	20		Introduced by:
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22	22		(TRA)
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24	24		AN ACT CONCERNING THE PENALTY FOR CAUSING HARM TO A VULNERABLE USER OF A PUBLIC WAY.
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26	26		Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Assembly convened:
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28	28		Section 1. (NEW) (Effective October 1, 2013) (a) As used in subsection (b) of this section, (1) "vulnerable user" means: (A) A pedestrian; (B) a highway worker; (C) a person riding or driving an animal; (D) a person riding a bicycle; (E) a person using a skateboard, roller skates or inline skates; (F) a person operating or riding on an agricultural tractor; (G) a person using a wheelchair or motorized chair; and (H) a blind person and such person's service animal, and (2) "public way" includes any state or other public highway, road, street, avenue, alley, driveway, parkway or place, under the control of the state or any political subdivision of the state, dedicated, appropriated or opened to public travel or other use.
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30	30		(b) Any person operating a motor vehicle on a public way who fails to exercise reasonable care and causes the serious physical injury or death of a vulnerable user of a public way, provided such vulnerable user has shown reasonable care in such user's use of the public way, shall be fined not more than one thousand dollars.
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35	35		This act shall take effect as follows and shall amend the following sections:
36	36		Section 1 October 1, 2013 New section
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38	38		This act shall take effect as follows and shall amend the following sections:
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40	40		Section 1
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42	42		October 1, 2013
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44	44		New section
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48	48		TRA Joint Favorable
49	49		INS Joint Favorable
50		-	JUD Joint Favorable
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54	53		Joint Favorable
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58	57		Joint Favorable
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