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Bills · 2013-2014 Regular Session

AB 159

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Relating to: penalties for certain traffic offenses committed while sanitation workers are at risk from traffic and providing a penalty. (FE)

Forfeiture Frac sand Legislature — Criminal penalties, joint review committee on Motor vehicle — Regulation Motor vehicle — Regulation — Speed Sanitation and sewerage management Solid waste management

  1. Introduced, stopped here
  2. Passes Assembly, not reached
  3. Passes Senate, not reached
  4. Governor signs, not reached
  5. Law, not reached

Unfamiliar terms? Glossary

What this bill does

Plain-language analysis by the nonpartisan Legislative Reference Bureau

Current law requires that the minimum and maximum forfeitures and fines for

violations of certain state and local traffic laws be doubled under specified

circumstances. Among these, a speeding violation or a reckless driving violation

committed in a highway maintenance or construction area or in a utility work area

is subject to doubling of the forfeiture or fine.

This bill doubles the minimum and maximum forfeitures for certain speeding

violations and the minimum and maximum forfeitures or fines for reckless driving

violations committed where sanitation workers are at risk from traffic and the driver

knows or should know that sanitation workers are present.

Because this bill creates a new crime or revises a penalty for an existing crime,

the Joint Review Committee on Criminal Penalties may be requested to prepare a

report concerning the proposed penalty and the costs or savings that are likely to

result if the bill is enacted.

What it would cost

Fiscal estimates filed by state agencies, as official PDFs

Sponsors

Introduced by: A. Ott (R) , Barnes (D) , Bernier (R) , Bies (R) , Born (R) , Czaja (R) , Hebl (D) , Hesselbein (D) , Jagler (R) , Kahl (D) , Kestell (R) , Kleefisch (R) , Kooyenga (R) , LeMahieu (R) , Murtha (R) , Ohnstad (D) , Petersen (R) , Petryk (R) , Ripp (R) , Spiros (R) , Stone (R) , T. Larson (R) , Thiesfeldt (R) , Tranel (R) , Williams (R) , Zepnick (D)

4 cosponsors

Farrow (R) , Hansen (D) , Johnson and Knudson , Wright (D)

Votes

Assembly: Report passage recommended by Committee on Criminal Justice, Ayes 8, Noes 0

Passed 8–0 May 2, 2013 official source full page

No individual roll call was recorded for this vote. Committee votes and some older sessions record totals only.

Full history

  1. Apr 15, 2013 · Assembly

    Introduced by Representatives Jagler, Murtha, Stone, Kooyenga, Petersen, Tranel, A. Ott, Petryk, Spiros, T. Larson, Ripp, Born, Kleefisch, Hesselbein, Barnes, Williams, Bies, Thiesfeldt, Zepnick, Kahl, Bernier, Kestell, Czaja, Hebl, LeMahieu and Ohnstad; cosponsored by Senators Farrow and Hansen

  2. Apr 15, 2013 · Assembly

    Read first time and referred to Committee on Criminal Justice

  3. Apr 30, 2013 · Assembly

    Representatives Johnson and Knudson added as coauthors

  4. Apr 30, 2013 · Assembly

    Fiscal estimate received

  5. May 2, 2013 · Assembly

    Public hearing held

  6. May 2, 2013 · Assembly

    Executive action taken

  7. May 2, 2013 · Assembly

    Report passage recommended by Committee on Criminal Justice, Ayes 8, Noes 0

  8. May 2, 2013 · Assembly

    Referred to Committee on Rules

  9. May 2, 2013 · Assembly

    Placed on calendar 5-7-2013 by Committee on Rules

  10. May 7, 2013 · Assembly

    Representative Wright added as a coauthor

  11. May 7, 2013 · Assembly

    Laid on the table

  12. May 7, 2013 · Assembly

    Assembly Amendment 1 offered by Representatives Kessler, Johnson and Hebl

  13. Apr 8, 2014 · Assembly

    Failed to pass pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 1