A new law in Texas requires convicted drunk drivers to pay child support if they kill a child’s parent or guardian, according to House Bill 393.
The law, which went into effect Friday, says those convicted of intoxication manslaughter must pay restitution. The offender will be expected to make those payments until the child is 18 or until the child graduates from high school, “whichever is later,” the legislation says.
Intoxication manslaughter is defined by state law as a person operating “a motor vehicle in a public place, operates an aircraft, a watercraft, or an amusement ride, or assembles a mobile amusement ride; and is intoxicated and by reason of that intoxication causes the death of another by accident or mistake.”
The amount of people that either cannot read or cannot fathom that their preconceived notion of how this legislation will work is much too high. And the cockiness of their demeanor…
The payments end when both criteria are met. The minor turns 18 and they have graduated high school.
It is in the legislation. Read it before you respond. https://capitol.texas.gov/tlodocs/88R/billtext/html/HB00393I.htm
They may not need to pay after the recipient is 19.
To all those people that wanted so desperately to get people to leave Reddit and come here, congratulations. It’s apparently working. Good job.
For someone who is complaining about people’s reading comprehension, it’s kind of weird that you seem to have missed what the comments are actually saying they don’t understand.
I’m referring to posts like this https://lemmy.world/comment/3061756
If people are just asking questions about what it says, I have no issue with that. But I saw none of that at the time of my post.
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