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At a session of the Verkhovna Rada on 16 September, the parliament failed to adopt in principle draft law No. 15 348 on strengthening liability for actions that lead to injuries and deaths on the roads. This bill, in particular, provides for new fines for speeding, reports the correspondent of the publication "HORDON".
225 MPs voted for adopting the bill in the first reading, which is one fewer than required for the bill to advance. Before that vote, however, Speaker Ruslan Stefanchuk held several test votes to see whether there were votes in favor of the initiative. And during the test vote on the bill, 226 MPs pressed the button in favor.
When the display showed the results of the first-reading vote, a buzz of outrage began in the parliament chamber. Stefanchuk proposed sending the initiative back for a repeated first reading, and then – returning it for revision. Both times deputies did not support those proposals. Then an alternative draft law No. 15 348-1 was put to a vote; even fewer deputies supported it – 198. That bill also could not be either re-voted in the first reading or sent for revision.
"After so many deaths on the roads, such a vote is a disgrace," emphasized Voice party MP Yaroslav Zheleznyak.
He reminded that the first initiative proposed to supplement the Code of Administrative Offenses with a new Article 122-6, which would define exclusively violations related to exceeding the established speed limits for vehicles. It envisaged implementing the following system of fines for exceeding the established speed limits:
more than 20 km/h – a fine of 680 UAH (40 untaxed minimum incomes of citizens);
more than 40 km/h – a fine of 2040 UAH (120 untaxed minimum incomes of citizens);
more than 60 km/h – a fine of 2720 UAH (160 untaxed minimum incomes of citizens);
more than 80 km/h – a fine of 3400 UAH (200 untaxed minimum incomes of citizens).
A fine of 17 thousand UAH was proposed for exceeding the speed by more than 60 km/h by a person who has already exceeded the speed by 60 km/h five or more times during the year.
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