FIRST REGULAR SESSION

HOUSE BILL NO. 657

91ST GENERAL ASSEMBLY

INTRODUCED BY REPRESENTATIVE REID.

Read 1st time February 6, 2001, and 1000 copies ordered printed.

TED WEDEL, Chief Clerk

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AN ACT

To amend chapter 537, RSMo, by adding thereto one new section relating to liquidated damages for certain personal injuries.



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

Section A. Chapter 537, RSMo, is amended by adding thereto one new section, to be known as section 537.038, to read as follows:

537.038. Any person operating a motor vehicle who intentionally, recklessly, or negligently collides with a pedestrian or cyclist and thereby causes personal injury to the pedestrian or cyclist shall be liable for liquidated compensatory damages of five hundred dollars or actual damages, whichever is greater, plus reasonable attorney's fees and court costs, unless the court determines that the collision was unavoidable.


Missouri House of Representatives