Tennessee passes bill requiring drunk drivers to pay child support if they kill a parent

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The Tennessee Senate passed legislation requiring drunk drivers to pay child support if they kill parents.

A suspected drunk driver in Virginia hits an 'entire crew' of road workers. Some of the workers are now in critical condition but all are expected to survive.The Tennessee legislature passed a bill Wednesday that would require drunk drivers to pay child support if they kill a parent and are convicted of vehicular homicide due to intoxication.

The legislation passed through the Tennessee Senate on Wednesday following an amendment to rename the bill after the two daughters of state police officer Nicholas Galinger, who was killed in a hit-and-run by a drunk driver in 2019,, which has yet to be signed into law, requires DUI drivers convicted of either vehicular homicide or aggravated vehicular homicide due to intoxication to pay child support if a parent killed in a crash has any minor children.

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