The Committee on Legislation held a meeting

The Committee on Legislation, Law Enforcement Agencies, Defense, Security, Peacekeeping, and Protection of Citizens' Rights and Freedoms will submit several legislations to the plenary session for adoption in the final reading.

Fines for video of crimes on the Internet

The package of legislations on protecting children from the harmful effects of the Internet was considered in the second reading by the Legislation, Law Enforcement Agencies, Defense, Security, Peacekeeping, and Protection of Citizens' Rights and Freedoms Committee. Deputies Galina Antyufeeva, Valery Babchinetsky, and Oleg Petrik decided to amend the current laws to more strictly punish public cruelty. Footage of humiliation can often drive a person to suicide, the authors of the initiative explained.

The amendments to the Code of Administrative Offenses introduce a separate offense for distributing information on the Internet that insults human dignity, as well as containing images of actions with signs of a crime, if these actions do not contain signs of a criminal offense.

It is proposed to introduce large fines for distributing photos and videos of bullying on the Internet. Violators can pay up to 4600 rubles. The sanctions are even higher for officials and legal entities: up to 5520 and 8280, respectively. Access to resources where footage of cruelty and violence is distributed should be limited, the authors of the legislations consider. Amendments to the laws "On the Protection of Children from Information Harmful to Their Health and Development" and "On Information, Information Technologies and the Protection of Information" have been proposed for this purpose.

The initiative is aimed at stopping bullying in social networks and group chats. The package of legislations will be submitted to one of the plenary sessions for a final reading decision.

Deputies propose not to increase the fine for a driver with a phone

The initiative of the President of the Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic to tighten the penalties for drivers with a phone in their hands was considered by the relevant parliamentary committee in the second reading. Vadim Krasnoselsky proposed increasing fines for those who are distracted by gadgets and allowing law enforcement agencies to identify such violations using video cameras. At the same time, the law-in-draft specified which devices would be prohibited from being used while driving: mobile phones and smartphones, tablets and laptops, smart watches, fitness bracelets, smart glasses, devices with augmented and (or) virtual reality functions, etc.

The Committee on Legislation has prepared its amendments for the second reading. Deputies propose to leave the fine at the same level, and to bring to administrative responsibility only for using a phone. Law enforcement agencies will be able to bring to responsibility for such violations using video cameras at the same time.

Drivers distracted by their phones are currently in third place among those responsible for accidents with serious consequences. 

The law-in-draft will be considered by deputies in the final reading taking into account the amendments at a plenary session of the Supreme Council.

Repeated prosecution is unacceptable

Parliamentarians propose to bring the norms of the Code of Administrative Offenses of the PMR into line with the principle of the impossibility of bearing administrative responsibility twice for the same offense. Deputies Galina Antyufeeva, Grigory Dyachenko and Oleg Petrik, the authors of the initiative note that repeated prosecution of a person is unacceptable in a state governed by the rule of law.

Currently, the driver is subject to administrative liability twice if a driver of a vehicle violates the Traffic Regulations, if it results in minor or moderate bodily harm to another person or significant damage to vehicles, cargo, roads, road and other structures or other property: both for violating the traffic regulations and for causing bodily harm or property damage. The law-in-draft proposes to differentiate liability for violating the traffic regulations and causing bodily harm or property damage and to hold the guilty parties administratively liable. The driver will be subject to liability only under Article 12.25 of the Code in the event of a traffic violation that results in a traffic accident. The law-in-draft will be recommended for adoption at the plenary session in the second final reading.