File Code: Vehicle Laws - Drunk Driving
Prior Year Introduction As: HB 437/03 - JUD
- Sponsored By:
-
Delegate Menes (Chairman, Special Committee on Drug and Alcohol
Abuse) and Delegates Petzold, Anderson, Boschert, Bronrott, Burns,
Eckardt, and Kelley
- Entitled:
-
Drunk and Drugged Driving - Evidence - Tests for Alcohol, Drugs, or
Controlled Dangerous Substances
Repealing the right of a person to not be compelled to submit to a
test for alcohol, drugs, or controlled dangerous substances under
specified circumstances; making a refusal of a person to submit to a
test for alcohol, drugs, or controlled dangerous substances under
specified circumstances a misdemeanor; providing for specified
penalties; requiring the Motor Vehicle Administration to assess a
specified number of points against the driver's license of a person
who is convicted of refusing to submit to a test; etc.
House Action
- 1/28
- First Reading Judiciary
- Hearing 2/12 at 1:00 p.m.
- 2/23
- Unfavorable Report by Judiciary
Senate Action
- No Action
- Sponsored by:
- Delegate Pauline H. Menes, District 21
- Delegate Curt Anderson, District 43
- Delegate David G. Boschert, District 33A
- Delegate William A. Bronrott, District 16
- Delegate Emmett C. Burns, Jr., District 10
- Drug & Alcohol Abuse, Special Comm. on (House)
- Delegate Adelaide C. Eckardt, District 37B
- Delegate Darryl A. Kelley, District 26
- Delegate Carol S. Petzold, District 19
- Bill indexed under the following Subjects:
- CHEMICAL TESTS
- CRIMES AND PUNISHMENTS -see also- PENALTIES; SENTENCES; etc.
- DRIVERS' LICENSES
- DRUNK AND DRUGGED DRIVING
- MOTOR VEHICLE ADMINISTRATION
- PENALTIES
- SENTENCES -see also- DEATH PENALTY
- Bill affects the following Statutes:
- Courts and Judicial Proceedings
- (
10-309
)
- Criminal Procedure
- (
6-220
)
- Transportation
- (
16-205.1 ,
16-205.1 ,
16-205.1 ,
16-402 ,
27-101
)
- Bill Text:
First Reading (PDF),
Third Reading, Enrolled
- Fiscal Note:
Available (PDF)
- Amendments:
None offered