File Code: Vehicle Laws - Drunk Driving
Prior Year Introduction As: SB 255/99 - JPR
- Sponsored By:
-
Senators Ruben, Blount, Conway, Dorman, Currie, Dyson, Forehand,
Frosh, Hoffman, Hollinger, Hooper, Jacobs, Lawlah, Madden, McCabe,
McFadden, Roesser, Stoltzfus, Teitelbaum, and Van Hollen
- Entitled:
-
Drunk Driving - Intoxicated Per Se - Driving While Under the
Influence
Prohibiting a person from driving or attempting to drive while having
a specified alcohol concentration; altering the definition of
"intoxicated per se" for purposes of various alcohol-related driving
offenses; making a blood alcohol concentration test result of 0.08 or
greater conclusive evidence of a person's alcohol concentration at the
time of testing; reducing the level of alcohol concentration that will
result in the suspension of a driver's license under specified
circumstances; etc.
Senate Action
- 2/4
- First Reading Judicial Proceedings
- 2/9
- Hearing 2/29 at 1:00 p.m.
- 3/6
- Unfavorable Report by Judicial Proceedings
House Action
- No Action
- Sponsored by:
- Senator Ida G. Ruben, District 20
- Senator Clarence W. Blount, District 41
- Senator Joan Carter Conway, District 43
- Senator Ulysses Currie, District 25
- Senator Arthur Dorman, District 21
- Senator Roy P. Dyson, District 29
- Senator Jennie M. Forehand, District 17
- Senator Brian E. Frosh, District 16
- Senator Barbara A. Hoffman, District 42
- Senator Paula C. Hollinger, District 11
- Senator J. Robert Hooper, District 35
- Senator Nancy Jacobs, District 34
- Senator Gloria Lawlah, District 26
- Senator Martin G. Madden, District 13
- Senator Christopher J. McCabe, District 14
- Senator Nathaniel J. McFadden, District 45
- Senator Jean W. Roesser, District 15
- Senator J. Lowell Stoltzfus, District 38
- Senator Leonard H. Teitelbaum, District 19
- Senator Christopher Van Hollen, Jr., District 18
- Bill indexed under the following Subjects:
- ACCIDENTS
- CHEMICAL TESTS
- CRIMES AND PUNISHMENTS -see also- PENALTIES; SENTENCES; etc.
- DRIVERS' LICENSES
- DRUNK AND DRUGGED DRIVING
- EVIDENCE
- FEDERAL GOVERNMENT
- FORMS
- HOMICIDE -see also- MANSLAUGHTER; MURDER
- MOTOR VEHICLES -see also- ABANDONED; AMBULANCES; BUSES; etc.
- RULES AND REGULATIONS
- Bill affects the following Statutes:
- Courts and Judicial Proceedings
- (
10-307
)
- Article - 27 Crimes and Punishments
- (
388A ,
388A ,
388B ,
388B
)
- Transportation
- (
11-127.1 ,
16-205.1 ,
16-205.1
)
- Bill Text:
First Reading (PDF),
Third Reading, Enrolled
- Fiscal Note:
Available (PDF)
- Amendments:
None offered