The Senate Committee on Corrections and Criminal Law heard HB 1051 urging the legislative council to assign the task of studying the topic of reckless homicide to an appropriate study committee. The committee would study the following aspects: (1) increasing the penalty for reckless homicide; and (2) whether a person commits a separate offense of reckless homicide for each person that is killed as part of the same episode of criminal conduct.
The bill passed 8-0.
Read the bill: http://www.iga.in.gov/legislative/2019/bills/house/1051