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Bill Summary for Bill Number HB17-1277 Date: 05/05/2017
Location: SCR 357
Final
BILL SUMMARY for HB17-1277

SENATE COMMITTEE ON FINANCE

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



02:42 PM -- HB17-1277

Senator Martinez Humenik, prime sponsor, presented House Bill 17-1277, which authorizes the state Division of Motor Vehicles 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. The bill allows law enforcement to serve the suspension notice to the driver personally.
BILL: HB17-1277
TIME: 02:46:17 PM
MOVED: Hill
MOTION: Refer House Bill 17-1277 to the Committee on Appropriations. The motion passed on a vote of 5-0.
SECONDED:
VOTE
Court
Yes
Kagan
Yes
Tate
Yes
Hill
Yes
Neville T.
Yes
Final YES: 5 NO: 0 EXC: 0 ABS: 0 FINAL ACTION: PASS