Austin (KXAN)-DWI bills are made through the Legislative Council of Texas this session.
Those who enjoy the largest penalty of a penalty of no less than five years include any person convicted of unintentional murder for poisoning. The current penalty scope is 2-20 years with various rulings.
Susan Davis spoke to this draft law – HB1760 – as the Reform Committee has risen.
She said: “Nine years, four months and 20 days, I received a phone call that no one wants to get,” she said. Your child has participated in an accident and it is very important to reach the hospital as soon as possible. “
Davis said that her son and daughter were injured and killed by a driver while crossing the street on their way to the Dallas Maverx game. Davis said that the prosecutors originally told her that they would not allow the seam of the seam because this was an “open and closed” issue. According to her testimony, this driver – which was the content of alcohol in the blood is the weakness of the legal limit – in the end, he got a call deal and served 120 days from a “comfort” over five years of test.
“This was a slap in the face of our sad children and families forever,” she said.
The Reforms Committee made a recommendation in favor of this draft law.
Erin Crawford-Bowers, a member of the Sugar Driving Mothers Executive Board of Directors, is working in every session to advance legislation like this.
She has her personal relationship with this topic.
“When my parents were killed in 1985, the perpetrator was only three months in prison and made three months of test,” she said. “The effects of the ripple that you make on families and children, all of this is to make a small decision in your life.”
For her, legislative change is more than what is on paper – it’s the basic message he represents.
She said: “If we are able to change the Texas mentality to say that it is not acceptable to eat two drinks and fail to the wheel. Because until it happens to you, you do not understand the repercussions you face, your family, and the mental health aspect.”
Other bills in this session include those that will make it difficult to refute someone under the influence and the other will help maintain the quality of DWI signs on the side of the road.