HB 20-1118 Colorado House · 2020 Regular Session

Careless Driving Serious Bodily Injury

Summary

Current law makes it a class 1 traffic misdemeanor when careless driving of a motor vehicle causes serious bodily injury to a vulnerable road user. The bill changes serious bodily injury to a vulnerable road user to serious bodily injury to anyone. (Note: This summary applies to the reengrossed version of this bill as introduced in the second house.)

Bill status passed 3 of 5 stages cleared

Introduction

Jan 2020

Committee Review

May 2020

House Passage

Mar 2020

Senate Passage

Governor

Introduced Jan 15, 2020 Last action May 28, 2020

Floor votes · House Mar 11, 2020

How they voted

30–0

Passed · 4 other

Total votes 34

Mar 11, 2020

D Democratic21

17 Yea 4

80% Yea

R Republican13

13 Yea

100% Yea

Vote distribution

All Yea All Nay Mixed No data

Full legislative history

Actions timeline

Total actions

Key actions

Committee

May 28, 2020

Upper · Passed

Senate Committee on State, Veterans, & Military Affairs Postpone Indefinitely

upper

May 26, 2020

Introduced

Introduced In Senate - Assigned to State, Veterans, & Military Affairs

upper

Mar 11, 2020

House · Passed

House Vote: pass (30-0-4)

house

Mar 6, 2020

Lower · Passed

House Committee on Appropriations Refer Unamended to House Committee of the Whole

lower

Feb 20, 2020

Committee

House Committee on Finance Refer Unamended to Appropriations

lower

Feb 4, 2020

Committee

House Committee on Judiciary Refer Unamended to Finance

lower

Jan 15, 2020

Introduced

Introduced In House - Assigned to Judiciary

lower

3 primary · 0 co-sponsors