Vehicles & Safety Committee
Filed: 2/19/2009
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| 1 | AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 73
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| 2 | AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend House Bill 73 by replacing | ||||||
| 3 | everything after the enacting clause with the following:
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| 4 | "Section 5. The Criminal Code of 1961 is amended by adding | ||||||
| 5 | Section 9-3.4 as follows: | ||||||
| 6 | (720 ILCS 5/9-3.4 new) | ||||||
| 7 | Sec. 9-3.4. Negligent vehicular homicide. | ||||||
| 8 | (a) A person commits the offense of negligent vehicular | ||||||
| 9 | homicide if the person's negligent operation of a motor vehicle | ||||||
| 10 | is a proximate cause of the death of another person. | ||||||
| 11 | (b) A person acts negligently within the meaning of this | ||||||
| 12 | Section if he or she fails to be aware of a substantial and | ||||||
| 13 | unjustifiable risk of death or injury to others, and that | ||||||
| 14 | failure constitutes a substantial deviation from the standard | ||||||
| 15 | of care that a reasonable person would exercise under the | ||||||
| 16 | circumstances then prevailing. | ||||||
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| 1 | (c) The finder of fact may consider statutes and ordinances | ||||||
| 2 | regulating the defendant's conduct in determining whether he or | ||||||
| 3 | she was culpably negligent under subsection (a). | ||||||
| 4 | (d) Negligent vehicular homicide is a Class A | ||||||
| 5 | misdemeanor.".
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