FIRST REGULAR SESSION
HOUSE BILL NO. 811
91ST GENERAL ASSEMBLY
INTRODUCED BY REPRESENTATIVE PORTWOOD.
Read 1st time February 15, 2001, and 1000 copies ordered printed.
TED WEDEL, Chief Clerk
AN ACT
To repeal section 565.024, RSMo 2000, relating to the crime of involuntary manslaughter, and to enact in lieu thereof one new section relating to the same subject, with penalty provisions.
Section A. Section 565.024, RSMo 2000, is repealed and one new section enacted in lieu thereof, to be known as section 565.024, to read as follows: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 in the first degree 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; or
(3) While in the process of committing an illegal activity, fails to summon aid when a reasonable person in the same circumstance would have done so, for a person whose death could have been avoided had aid been timely summoned, or prevents others from summoning such aid.
2. Involuntary manslaughter in the first degree is a class C felony.
3. A person commits the crime of involuntary manslaughter in the second degree if he acts with criminal negligence to cause the death of any person.
4. Involuntary manslaughter in the second degree is a class D felony.
Missouri House of Representatives