File Code: Vehicle Laws - Drunk Driving
Crossfiled with: SENATE BILL 26
- Sponsored By:
-
Delegates Petzold, Menes, Hutchins, Heller, Mandel, and Perry
- Entitled:
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Vehicle Laws - Alcoholic Beverages - Open Containers
Prohibiting a person from keeping certain open containers with alcohol
in the passenger compartment of a motor vehicle on a highway in the
State; exempting persons, other than the driver, riding in a passenger
bus, a for hire vehicle, or a motor home; defining "passenger
compartment" and "motor home"; providing for a $500 penalty;
identifying persons to be charged; and generally relating to a
prohibition against keeping an alcoholic beverage in an open container
in a motor vehicle under certain circumstances.
House Action
- 1/31
- First Reading Judiciary
- 2/5
- Hearing 2/20 at 1:00 p.m.
- 2/24
- Unfavorable Report by Judiciary
Senate Action
- No Action
- Sponsored by:
- Delegate Carol Stoker Petzold, District 19
- Delegate Henry B. Heller, District 19
- Delegate Thomas E. Hutchins, District 28
- Delegate Adrienne A. Mandel, District 19
- Delegate Pauline H. Menes, District 21
- Delegate Marsha G. Perry, District 33
- Bill indexed under the following Subjects:
- ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES -see also- DRUNK AND DRUGGED DRIVING
- BEVERAGE CONTAINERS
- DRUNK AND DRUGGED DRIVING
- MOTOR VEHICLES -see also- ABANDONED VEH; OFF-RD. VEH.; TRUCK
- PENALTIES
- Bill affects the following Statutes:
- Transportation
- (
21-905 ,
27-101
)
- Bill Text:
- First Reading (PDF),
Third Reading, Enrolled (PDF)
- Fiscal Note:
Available (PDF)