Texting while driving-penalties.

2018
STATE OF WYOMING
18LSO-0511
Numbered
1.2

HOUSE BILL

NO.
HB0179

Texting while driving-penalties.

Sponsored by:
Representative(s) Hunt, Blackburn and Pelkey

A BILL

for

AN ACT relating to crimes and offenses; providing penalties for homicide by vehicle when using handheld electronic wireless communication devices as specified; and providing for an effective date.

Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Wyoming:

Section
1
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W.S. 6
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2
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106(b)
(
i
), (ii) and by creating a new paragraph (iii)
and 31
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5
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237(c) are amended to read:

6
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2
‑
106
.

Homicide by vehicle; aggravated homicide by vehicle; penalties.

(b)

A person is guilty of aggravated homicide by vehicle and shall be punished by imprisonment in the penitentiary for not more than twenty (20) years, if:

(i)

While operating or driving a vehicle in violation of W.S. 10
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6
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103, 31
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5
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233 or 41
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13
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206, he causes the death of another person and the violation is the proximate cause of the death;
or

(ii)

He operates or drives a vehicle in a reckless manner, and his conduct is th
e proximate cause of the death of another person
;
.

or

(iii)

While operating or driving a vehicle in violation of W.S. 31
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5
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237, he causes the death of another person and the violation is the proximate cause of death.

31
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5
‑
237
.

Use of handheld electronic wireless communication devices for electronic messaging prohibited; exceptions; penalties.

(c)

Except as provided in W.S. 6
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2
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106(b), a
ny person who operates a motor vehicle in violation of this section is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine of not more than seventy
‑
five dollars ($75.00).

Section 2
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This act is effective July 1, 201
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