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To amend Article 15 of Chapter 6 of Title 40 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to serious traffic offenses, so as to provide criminal punishment for the offense of causing death or serious bodily injury of another person by losing control of a motor vehicle due to failure to take medication as prescribed; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.

Article 15 of Chapter 6 of Title 40 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to serious traffic offenses, is amended by adding a new Code Section 40-6-397 to read as follows:
"40-6-397.
Any person who, without malice aforethought and because of failure to take medication as prescribed for him or her, fails to maintain proper control of a motor vehicle driven by such person and thereby causes the death of another person, deprives another person of a body member, renders a member of another person´s body useless, seriously disfigures another person´s body or a member thereof, or causes organic brain damage which renders another person´s body or any member thereof useless shall be guilty of a felony and, upon conviction thereof, shall be punished by imprisonment for not less than three years nor more than 15 years."