Official record
Measure details
- Jurisdiction
- Colorado
- Session
- 2026A
- Chamber
- upper
- Classification
- bill
- Subjects
- Crimes, Corrections, & Enforcement
- Introduced / first action
- 2026-01-28 00:00:00
Source-supplied abstracts
The act clarifies the conduct by which a person can commit criminally negligent homicide to include proximately causing the death of another person while operating or driving a motor vehicle with criminal negligence. The act repeals the class 1 misdemeanor traffic offense of a person being the proximate cause of death to another person while driving a motor vehicle, while clarifying it can be charged as a class 5 felony elsewhere in statute.(Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)
Sponsors
- J. Carson (primary), sponsor
- M. Snyder (primary), sponsor
- C. Espenoza (primary), sponsor
- B. Marshall (primary), sponsor
- J. Coleman, cosponsor
- L. Frizell, cosponsor
- B. Kirkmeyer, cosponsor
- J. Marchman, cosponsor
- K. Mullica, cosponsor
- B. Pelton, cosponsor
- D. Roberts, cosponsor
- C. Simpson, cosponsor
- A. Boesenecker, cosponsor
- M. Duran, cosponsor
- R. Gonzalez, cosponsor
- S. Lieder, cosponsor
- J. McCluskie, cosponsor
- A. Paschal, cosponsor
- C. Richardson, cosponsor
- M. Soper, cosponsor