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General Assembly Proposed Bill No. 5062
January Session, 2025
LCO No. 433
Referred to Committee on TRANSPORTATION
Introduced by:
REP. VEACH, 30th Dist.
AN ACT INCREASING PENALTIES FOR SPEEDING AND RECKLESS
DRIVING.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General
Assembly convened:
That (1) sections 14-111, 14-137a and 14-222 of the general statutes be 1
amended to provide that (A) any person who operates a motor vehicle 2
at a rate of speed greater than eighty-six miles per hour, but not greater 3
than ninety-nine miles per hour, shall be fined not less than five 4
hundred dollars and assessed two points against the person's motor 5
vehicle operator's license; and (B) any person who operates a motor 6
vehicle at a rate of speed greater than ninety-nine miles per hour shall 7
be fined not less than one thousand dollars and assessed four points 8
against the person's operator's license and the Commissioner of Motor 9
Vehicles shall, without hearing, suspend such person's operator's 10
license or privilege to operate a motor vehicle for a period of thirty days; 11
and (2) sections 14-111 and 14-111b of the general statutes be amended 12
to require the Commissioner of Motor Vehicles to suspend, without 13
hearing, a person's operator's license or privilege to operate a motor 14
vehicle for a third or subsequent violation of section 14-219 or 14-222 of 15 Proposed Bill No. 5062
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the general statutes within a ten-year period, for a period of not less than 16
six months. 17
Statement of Purpose:
To improve public safety by increasing penalties for speeding and
reckless driving.