File Code: Vehicle Laws - Drunk Driving
Prior Year Introduction As: SB 160/98 - JPR
- Sponsored By:
-
Senators Lawlah, Jacobs, Madden, Currie, Hughes, Hollinger,
Frosh, McCabe, Conway, Hoffman, Dorman, Stoltzfus, Van Hollen,
McFadden, and Dyson
- Entitled:
-
Drunk Driving - Intoxicated Per Se - Driving While Under the
Influence
Reducing the level of alcohol concentration required for a
determination of driving while intoxicated per se from 0.10 to 0.08;
reducing the level of alcohol concentration that will result in the
suspension of a driver's license from 0.10 to 0.08; reducing the level
of alcohol concentration that will result in the crimes of homicide or
life threatening injury while intoxicated per se from 0.10 to 0.08;
etc.
Senate Action
- 1/22
- First Reading Judicial Proceedings
- 1/27
- Hearing 2/10 at 1:00 p.m.
- 3/25
- Unfavorable Report by Judicial Proceedings
House Action
- No Action
- Sponsored by:
- Senator Gloria Lawlah, District 26
- Senator Joan Carter Conway, District 43
- Senator Ulysses Currie, District 25
- Senator Arthur Dorman, District 21
- Senator Roy P. Dyson, District 29
- Senator Brian E. Frosh, District 16
- Senator Barbara A. Hoffman, District 42
- Senator Paula Colodny Hollinger, District 11
- Senator Ralph M. Hughes, District 40
- Senator Nancy Jacobs, District 34
- Senator Martin G. Madden, District 13
- Senator Christopher J. McCabe, District 14
- Senator Nathaniel J. McFadden, District 45
- Senator J. Lowell Stoltzfus, District 38
- Senator Christopher Van Hollen, Jr., District 18
- Bill indexed under the following Subjects:
- ACCIDENTS
- CHEMICAL TESTS -see also- BLOOD TESTS
- CRIMES AND PUNISHMENTS -see also- PENALTIES; SENTENCES
- DRIVERS' LICENSES
- DRUNK AND DRUGGED DRIVING
- EVIDENCE
- HOMICIDE
- MOTOR VEHICLES -see also- ABANDONED VEH; OFF-RD. VEH.; TRUCK
- 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
