Senate Judiciary Approves Enhanced Vehicular Homicide Bill

The Senate Judiciary has approved a bill that adds the charge of aggravated vehicular homicide to state statute. It also categorizes the existing crime of vehicular homicide as violent, rather than nonviolent, resulting in a longer prison sentence for convicts. Proponents point specifically to the conviction of Ronald Ray Fischer as justification for changing the law. Opponents say it paints with too broad a brush.