CHAPTER NUMBER: 4
File Code: Vehicle Laws - Drunk Driving
Prior Year Introduction As: SB 568/00 - JPR
- Sponsored By:
-
Senators Ruben, Hollinger, Conway, Currie, Dorman, Dyson,
Forehand, Frosh, Haines, Hoffman, Hooper, Hughes, Jacobs, Kasemeyer,
Lawlah, McCabe, McFadden, Roesser, Stoltzfus, Teitelbaum,
Van Hollen, and Green
- Entitled:
-
Alcohol Concentration -
"0.08"
Reducing the level of alcohol concentration required for a
determination of being in violation of specified alcohol-related
offenses to 0.08; making conforming changes to the level of alcohol
concentration concerning a presumption of being in violation of a
specified alcohol-related driving offense; expanding the applicability
of specified evidentiary provisions concerning alcohol concentration
levels to juvenile and civil proceedings; etc.
Senate Action
- 1/15
- First Reading Judicial Proceedings
- 2/7
- Hearing 2/15 at 1:00 p.m.
- 3/19
- Favorable with Amendments Report by Judicial Proceedings
- 3/20
- Favorable with Amendments Report Adopted
- Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- 3/22
- Third Reading Passed (44-2)
- 4/3
- Returned Passed
- 4/10
- Signed by the Governor Chapter 4
House Action
- 3/19
- First Reading Judiciary
- 3/23
- Hearing 3/29 at 1:00 p.m.
- 4/5
- Favorable Report by Judiciary
- 3/31
- Favorable Report Adopted
- Second Reading Passed
- 4/2
- Third Reading Passed (122-11)
- Sponsored by:
- Senator Ida G. Ruben, District 20
- 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 Leo E. Green, District 23
- Senator Larry E. Haines, District 5
- Senator Barbara A. Hoffman, District 42
- Senator Paula C. Hollinger, District 11
- Senator J. Robert Hooper, District 35
- Senator Ralph M. Hughes, District 40
- Senator Nancy Jacobs, District 34
- Senator Edward J. Kasemeyer, District 12
- Senator Gloria Lawlah, District 26
- 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
- (
3-806 ,
10-307 ,
10-308
)
- Article - 27 Crimes and Punishments
- (
388A ,
388B
)
- Health - General
- (
8-401
)
- Natural Resources
- (
8-738 ,
8-740
)
- Article - 1 Rules of Interpretation
- (
3
)
- Transportation
- (
11-127.1 ,
16-117 ,
16-205 ,
16-205.1 ,
16-205.1 ,
16-205.2 ,
16-402 ,
18-105 ,
21-902 ,
26-202 ,
26-404 ,
26-405 ,
27-101 ,
27-107
)
- Bill Text:
First Reading (PDF),
Third Reading (PDF), Enrolled
- Fiscal Note:
Available (PDF)
- Amendments:
- Senate
- Number: 178278/1 (PDF) Offered on: March 20, 2001 at:
11:13 a.m. Status: Adopted
- Roll Call Votes (Legislative dates are shown):
- Senate
- March 22, 2001: Third Reading Passed (44-2)
- House
- April 2, 2001: Third Reading Passed (122-11)