File Code: Motor Vehicles - Rules of the Road
- Sponsored By:
-
Delegates Vallario, Taylor, Cummings, Hurson, Busch, Guns, Hixson, and
Rawlings
- Entitled:
-
Vehicle Laws - Eluding Police - Penalties
Making it a felony for a driver of a vehicle to attempt to elude a
police officer and continuing into another state; increasing the
penalty for attempting to elude a police officer resulting in injury
to another from not more than $3,000 or 3 years' imprisonment, or
both, to $5,000 or 5 years' imprisonment, or both; and increasing the
penalty for attempting to elude a police officer resulting in the
death of another person from $5,000 or 5 years' imprisonment, or both,
to $10,000 or 10 years' imprisonment, or both.
House Action
- 11/15
- Pre-filed
- 1/10
- First Reading Judiciary
- 1/17
- Hearing 1/30 at 1:00 p.m.
- 2/12
- Favorable with Amendments Report by Judiciary
- 2/13
- Favorable with Amendments Report Adopted
- Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- 2/16
- Third Reading Passed (117-15)
Senate Action
- 2/19
- First Reading Judicial Proceedings
- 3/13
- Hearing 3/19 at 1:00 p.m.
- Sponsored by:
- Delegate Joseph F. Vallario, Jr., District 27A
- Delegate Michael Erin Busch, District 30
- Delegate Elijah E. Cummings, District 44
- Delegate Ronald A. Guns, District 36
- Delegate Sheila Ellis Hixson, District 20
- Delegate John Adams Hurson, District 18
- Delegate Howard P. Rawlings, District 40
- Delegate Casper R. Taylor, Jr., District 1C
- Bill indexed under the following Subjects:
- ACCIDENTS
- CRIMES AND PUNISHMENTS -see also- PENALTIES, SENTENCES
- JURISDICTION
- LAW ENFORCEMENT -see also- STATE POLICE, DEPT. OF
- MOTOR VEHICLES - GENERAL -see also- ABANDONED VEHICLES
- PENALTIES
- Bill affects the following Statutes:
- Courts and Judicial Proceedings
- (
4-301 ,
4-302
)
- Transportation
- (
21-904 ,
27-101
)
- Bill Text:
- First Reading (PDF),
Third Reading (PDF), Enrolled
- Fiscal Note:
Available (PDF)
Amendments:
- House
- Number: 251579/1 (PDF) Offered on: FEBRUARY 13, 1996 at: 10:37
Status: Adopted