General Assembly Proposed Bill No. 6324
January Session, 2015 LCO No. 875
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Referred to Committee on TRANSPORTATION
Introduced by:
REP. CUEVAS, 75th Dist.
General Assembly
Proposed Bill No. 6324
January Session, 2015
LCO No. 875
*00875*
Referred to Committee on TRANSPORTATION
Introduced by:
REP. CUEVAS, 75th Dist.
AN ACT CONCERNING DRIVING FATALITIES CAUSED WHILE USING A HAND-HELD TELEPHONE OR A MOBILE ELECTRONIC DEVICE.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Assembly convened:
That the general statutes be amended to provide that a person is guilty of manslaughter in the second degree with a motor vehicle when, while operating a motor vehicle and using a hand-held mobile telephone to engage in a call or a mobile electronic device, such person causes the death of another person as a consequence of the use of such mobile telephone or mobile electronic device.
Statement of Purpose:
To make driving fatalities caused while texting or using a hand-held mobile phone punishable in the same way as driving fatalities caused while driving under the influence of liquor or drugs.