File Code: Vehicle Laws - Rules of the Road
- Sponsored By:
-
Delegate Brinkley
- Entitled:
-
Vehicle Laws - Fleeing or Eluding Police - Penalties
Making it a felony if a person, while fleeing or eluding the police,
recklessly engages in conduct that creates a substantial risk of death
or serious physical injury to another; making it a felony and
increasing the maximum fine if injury or death to another person
results from a driver of a vehicle attempting to elude the police by
willfully failing to stop a vehicle; making it a felony for a person
to assault a police officer or other individual in the course of
fleeing or eluding the police; etc.
House Action
- 1/29
- First Reading Judiciary
- 2/5
- Hearing 3/7 at 1:00 p.m.
- 3/10
- Unfavorable Report by Judiciary
Senate Action
- No Action
- Bill indexed under the following Subjects:
- ASSAULT
- CRIMES AND PUNISHMENTS -see also- PENALTIES; SENTENCES
- LAW ENFORCEMENT -see also- STATE POLICE, DEPT. OF
- MOTOR VEHICLES -see also- ABANDONED VEH; OFF-RD. VEH.; TRUCK
- PENALTIES
- Bill affects the following Statutes:
- Article - 27 Crimes and Punishments
- (
12A-1
)
- Transportation
- (
21-904 ,
27-101
)
- Bill Text:
- First Reading (PDF),
Third Reading, Enrolled
- Fiscal Note:
Available (PDF)
