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| With acknowledgements/apologies to Patrick O'Grady/maddogmedia.com |
I'm not sure the usual suspects (New Mexico Motorcycle Rights Organization and Duke City Wheelmen) and reinvigorated allies (The Bicycle Coalition of New Mexico) will try to get an enhanced penalty bill aimed at careless drivers who kill (modelled on the old HB 12) reintroduced during the upcoming 2015 legislative session, given that we have gotten it to sail through the House each year since 2011 and each time, the Senate Judiciary Committee kills it for reasons unknown. We need to figure out a way to get this on the Governor's desk, once and for all. But as one fellow cycling advocate tells me, the Senate Majority Leader, an attorney, does not like the idea of this law, and it always seems to meet a dead end in the SJC.
Maybe now is a good time to push again, given the recent stories of carnage without consequences on our roads. I've appended jpegs of the 2012 bill below. Click to enlarge. Thank so much to Rick Miera for his dogged support, but Rick is retiring.
Note. Thanks to Jennifer Buntz, here is the 2013 bill.
Here are some previous posts on this blog regarding this issue.
http://labikes.blogspot.com/2012/10/kill-bicyclist-watch-tv-part-ii-by.html
http://labikes.blogspot.com/2012/10/new-mexico-kill-bicyclist-watch-tv.html
http://labikes.blogspot.com/2012/01/if-passed-house-bill-12-will-make-our.html
http://labikes.blogspot.com/2011/02/traffic-justice-two-views.html
http://labikes.blogspot.com/2012/01/its-official-house-bill-12-introduced.html
http://labikes.blogspot.com/2012/02/biker-rally-2012-where-were-bicyclists.html
http://labikes.blogspot.com/2012/06/2013-legislative-session-its-time-to.html
http://labikes.blogspot.com/2012/09/labs-vunerable-road-users-law-must-some.html
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