Gov. Greg Abbott signed a bill into law that will require drunk drivers who kill a parent to pay child support.
Earlier this month, Abbott signed House Bill 393 requiring drunk drivers convicted of intoxicated manslaughter to make restitution payments for the support of a child under 18 whose parent or guardian was killed in a drunk driving crash (pdf).
In 2022, someone was killed by a drunk driver every seven hours and 32 minutes in Texas, according to the Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT).
“MADD supports Bentley’s Law because it holds drunk driving offenders accountable for robbing children of a future with their parents. The sad reality is that every child in Texas is at risk of losing a parent because no one is safe from impaired driving,” said MADD National President Tess Rowland in a statement to The Epoch Times. “MADD thanks Texas legislators and Governor Abbott for Bentley’s Law, which provides a sense of justice to victims and survivors of someone else’s dangerous and preventable choice to drive impaired.”…