SECOND REGULAR SESSION

SENATE BILL NO. 886

89TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY


INTRODUCED BY SENATOR DePASCO.

Read 1st time February 5, 1998, and 1,000 copies ordered printed.

TERRY L. SPIELER, Secretary.

L3724.02I


AN ACT

To repeal section 565.024, RSMo 1994, relating to involuntary manslaughter, and to enact in lieu thereof one new section relating to the same subject, with penalty provisions.


Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Missouri, as follows:

Section A.  Section 565.024, RSMo 1994, is repealed and one new section enacted in lieu thereof, to be known as section 565.024, to read as follows:

565.024.  1.  A person commits the crime of involuntary manslaughter if [he] the person:

(1)  Recklessly causes the death of another person; or

(2)  While in an intoxicated condition operates a motor vehicle in this state and, when so operating, acts with criminal negligence to cause the death of any person.

2.  Involuntary manslaughter is a class C felony, unless the victim was a peace officer on duty, in which case it is a class B felony.




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