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HB113: Disregarding signal to stop; endangerment of operation of law-enforcement officer, penalty.

Chief Patron

Del. Lee Ware (R-65)

Lee Ware (R-65)
Powhatan, VA
Served: 1998–

Progress

Yes Introduced
Yes Passed Committee
Yes Passed House
Yes Passed Senate
Yes Signed by Governor
Yes Became Law

Status

04/02/2008: signed by governor

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Summary

Disregarding signal to stop; death of person; penalties.  Provides that if a person is killed, whether as the direct or indirect result of the actions of a driver who has disregarded an officer's signal to stop his motor vehicle and who operates his motor vehicle in a willful and wanton disregard of such signal so as to interfere with or endanger the operation of the law-enforcement vehicle or endanger a person, the driver is guilty of a Class 4 felony.  The bill also increases the penalty for disregarding a signal from a law-enforcement officer to stop or attempting to escape or elude a law-enforcement officer from a Class 3 misdemeanor to a Class 1 misdemeanor.

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Video

Votes were cast on this bill on the following dates for which Richmond Sunlight has video: 01/10/2008, 01/31/2008, 02/01/2008, 02/01/2008, 02/04/2008, 02/04/2008, 02/05/2008, 02/11/2008, 02/12/2008, 02/13/2008, 02/13/2008, 02/21/2008, 02/22/2008, 02/22/2008, 02/29/2008, 03/06/2008, 03/07/2008 and 03/07/2008.

Comments

Buddy writes:

A class 3 misdemeanor for wantonly disregarding a police signal to stop is ridiculous. It's about time somebody proposed a law to increase the penalty on that. (The felony eluding kicks in when the behavior presents a danger to any person.)

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