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Bill Summary for Bill Number HB17-1277 Date: 05/01/2017
Location: LSB A
Final
BILL SUMMARY for HB17-1277

HOUSE COMMITTEE ON FINANCE

Votes: View--> Action Taken:
Refer House Bill 17-1277 to the Committee on Appro PASS



04:19 PM -- HB17-1277

Representative Mitsch Bush, prime sponsor, presented House Bill 17-1277. The bill, as amended by the House Transportation and Energy Committee, authorizes the state Division of Motor Vehicles (DMV) to suspend a driver license if it has been found, by a preponderance of the evidence, that the driver involved in an accident causing serious bodily injury or death to any person failed to stop at, as close as possible to, or immediately return to the scene of the accident. Representative Mitsch Bush distributed and explained amendment L.004 (Attachment C). She responded to questions from the committee.

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04:22 PM --
Sergeant Dave Hall, representing the Colorado State Patrol, testified in support of the bill.


04:29 PM

Representative Mitsch Bush made closing remarks on the bill.
BILL: HB17-1277
TIME: 04:30:15 PM
MOVED: Van Winkle
MOTION: Refer House Bill 17-1277 to the Committee on Appropriations. The motion passed on a vote of 12-0.
SECONDED: Gray
VOTE
Beckman
Yes
Benavidez
Yes
Catlin
Yes
Covarrubias
Yes
Gray
Yes
Herod
Yes
Kennedy
Yes
Lawrence
Yes
Michaelson Jenet
Yes
Thurlow
Yes
Van Winkle
Yes
Foote
Yes
Pabon
Excused
Final YES: 12 NO: 0 EXC: 1 ABS: 0 FINAL ACTION: PASS