SB 26-72

Senate Bill 26-72 increases penalties for vehicular homicide and assault in Colorado. It makes it a more serious crime if someone causes a fatal accident while using a phone or another electronic device while driving. The bill also adds these offenses to the list of crimes considered violent. Since the bill has been signed, it is now law and will affect anyone who commits such an offense from this point onward.

Official Summary

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.)

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