File Code: Vehicle Laws - Drunk Driving
Prior Year Introduction As: SB 450/97 - JPR
Crossfiled with: HOUSE BILL 361  
- Sponsored By: 
- 
Senators Ruben, Lawlah, Dyson, Forehand, Munson, Boozer, Blount,
Hollinger, Kasemeyer, Madden, McCabe, Roesser, Frosh, Van Hollen,
Teitelbaum, Dorman, Currie, Middleton, Astle, Middlebrooks, Craig,
Stoltzfus, Hogan, Hoffman, Conway, McFadden, and Fry
- 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
- 1/23
- First Reading Judicial Proceedings
- 2/11
- Hearing 3/11 at 1:00 p.m.
- 3/23
- Unfavorable Report by Judicial Proceedings
House Action
- No Action
- Sponsored by:
- Senator Ida G. Ruben, District 20
- Senator John C. Astle, District 30
- Senator Clarence W. Blount, District 41
- Senator F. Vernon Boozer, District 9
- Senator Joan Carter Conway, District 43
- Senator David R. Craig, District 34
- 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 Donald C. Fry, District 35
- Senator Barbara A. Hoffman, District 42
- Senator Patrick J. Hogan, District 39
- Senator Paula Colodny Hollinger, District 11
- Senator Edward J. Kasemeyer, District 12
- Senator Gloria Gary Lawlah, District 26
- Senator Martin G. Madden, District 13
- Senator Christopher J. McCabe, District 14
- Senator Nathaniel J. McFadden, District 45
- Senator C. Edward Middlebrooks, District 32
- Senator Thomas McLain Middleton, District 28
- Senator Donald F. Munson, District 2
- 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
- DEATH -see also- ADVANCE MEDICAL DIRECTIVES; WRONGFUL DEATH.
- DRIVERS' LICENSES
- DRUNK AND DRUGGED DRIVING
- EVIDENCE
- Bill affects the following Statutes:
-   Courts and Judicial Proceedings
- (
 10-307 
)
- Article - 27 Crimes and Punishments
- (
 388A ,
 388B 
)
-   Transportation
- (
 11-127.1 ,
 16-205.1 
)
- Bill Text:
 First Reading (PDF),
Third Reading, Enrolled 
- Fiscal Note:
 Available (PDF) 
- Amendments:
None offered
 
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