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General Assembly

 

Proposed Bill No. 6059

 

January Session, 2009

 

LCO No. 205

   

Referred to Committee on Transportation

 

Introduced by:

 

REP. MILLER L., 122nd Dist.

 

AN ACT CONCERNING THE PENALTY FOR CAUSING AN ACCIDENT WHILE USING A HAND-HELD MOBILE TELEPHONE.

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

That section 14-296aa of the general statutes be amended to provide that any person who causes a motor vehicle accident while driving and using a hand-held mobile telephone shall be fined an additional five hundred dollars, and that if a death results from any such accident, such person shall be fined an additional five hundred dollars and such person's driver's license shall be suspended for one year.

Statement of Purpose:

To keep our drivers safe.