Bill Text: CT HB05457 | 2010 | General Assembly | Comm Sub

Connecticut House Bill 5457 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Bill Title: An Act Concerning Penalties For Harm To Vulnerable Users Of A Public Way.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 13-4-1)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2010-04-29 - Senate Calendar Number 515 [HB05457 Detail]

Download: Connecticut-2010-HB05457-Comm_Sub.html


General Assembly		*Raised Bill No. 5457*
*February Session, 2010*		LCO No. 1739
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Referred to Committee on Transportation
Introduced by:
(TRA)

AN ACT ENHANCING PENALTIES FOR HARM TO VULNERABLE USERS OF A PUBLIC WAY.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Assembly convened:

Section 1. (NEW) (Effective October 1, 2010) (a) As used in this section:

(1) "Vulnerable user" means (A) a pedestrian, (B) a highway worker, as defined in section 14-212d of the general statutes, including a highway worker who performs duties on a highway under the control of a political subdivision of the state, while in the performance of his or her duties and while outside his or her vehicle, (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, or (F) a person operating or riding on an agricultural tractor or farm implement, as defined in section 14-1 of the general statutes, that does not have an enclosed passenger compartment; and

(2) "Public way" means a highway, as defined in section 14-1 of the general statutes, shoulder, as defined in section 14-1 of the general statutes, crosswalk, sidewalk, parking area, as defined in section 14-212 of the general statutes, or multipurpose trail.

(b) A person commits the offense of infliction of serious physical injury or death to a vulnerable user when such person, while operating a motor vehicle on a public way, fails to exercise due care to avoid colliding with a vulnerable user of such public way and collides with such vulnerable user causing serious physical injury, as defined in section 53a-3 of the general statutes, or death to such vulnerable user.

(c) Any person convicted of the offense of infliction of serious physical injury or death to a vulnerable user shall be sentenced to attend a motor vehicle operator's retraining program, as provided in section 14-111g of the general statutes, and perform not less than one hundred hours or more than two hundred hours of community service and may be fined not more than five thousand dollars. Such person shall complete such retraining program and perform such community service within one year of the date of sentencing.

(d) If the Court Support Services Division reports to the court that such person has not successfully completed such retraining program and performed such community service within such one-year period, the court shall fine such person not more than ten thousand dollars and suspend such person's motor vehicle operator's license or nonresident operating privilege for a period of one year.