Bill Text: CT HB05550 | 2013 | General Assembly | Introduced

Connecticut House Bill 5550 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: An Act Concerning The Penalties For Unlawful Use Of A Mobile Telephone Or Electronic Device While Operating A Motor Vehicle.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 2)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2013-01-31 - Public Hearing 02/04 [HB05550 Detail]

Download: Connecticut-2013-HB05550-Introduced.html


General Assembly		*Proposed Bill No. 5550*
*January Session, 2013*		LCO No. 1339

Referred to Committee on TRANSPORTATION
Introduced by:
REP. BOLINSKY, 106th Dist.

AN ACT CONCERNING THE PENALTIES FOR UNLAWFUL USE OF A MOBILE TELEPHONE OR ELECTRONIC DEVICE WHILE OPERATING A MOTOR VEHICLE.

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

That section 14-296aa of the general statutes, concerning the prohibition against the use of a mobile telephone or other electronic device while operating a motor vehicle, be amended to provide that the Commissioner of Motor Vehicles shall, for a second violation of said section 14-296aa by a person operating a motor vehicle, suspend such person's operator's license for forty-eight hours and, for a third or subsequent violation of said section, suspend such person's operator's license for thirty days.

Statement of Purpose:

To increase the penalties for distracted driving by suspending the operator's license of repeat offenders.