File Code: Vehicle Laws - Drunk Driving
- Sponsored By:
-
Delegate Menes (Chairman, Special Committee on Drug and Alcohol
Abuse) and Delegates Bronrott, Boschert, Burns, Eckardt, Kelley, and
Petzold
- Entitled:
-
Crimes - Driving or Boating While Impaired by a Controlled Dangerous
Substance Per Se - Penalties
Making it a misdemeanor for a person to drive or attempt to drive a
motor vehicle while the person has any amount of a controlled
dangerous substance in the person's body; defining "impaired by a
controlled dangerous substance per se"; authorizing the admissibility
of evidentiary tests for measuring any amount of a controlled
dangerous substance in a person's body; and generally relating to
offenses of driving or boating while impaired by a controlled
dangerous substance per se.
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 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:
- ACCIDENTS
- BOATS AND SHIPS
- CHEMICAL TESTS
- CONTROLLED DANGEROUS SUBSTANCES -see also- SUBSTANCE ABUSE
- CRIMES AND PUNISHMENTS -see also- PENALTIES; SENTENCES; etc.
- DRIVERS' LICENSES
- DRUNK AND DRUGGED DRIVING
- EVIDENCE
- HEARINGS
- HOMICIDE -see also- MANSLAUGHTER; MURDER
- INDICTMENTS
- INTERSTATE AFFAIRS
- MOTOR VEHICLES -see also- ABANDONED; AMBULANCES; BUSES; etc.
- MOTOR VEHICLE ADMINISTRATION
- PENALTIES
- RECORDS -see also- LAND RECORDS; VITAL RECORDS
- Bill affects the following Statutes:
- Courts and Judicial Proceedings
- (
10-307 ,
10-307
)
- Criminal Law
- (
2-501.1 ,
2-506 ,
2-506.1 ,
2-507 ,
3-211 ,
3-212
)
- Transportation
- (
11-174.1 ,
16-205 ,
16-205.1 ,
16-205.1 ,
16-205.1 ,
16-402 ,
16-402.1 ,
21-902 ,
21-902 ,
26-404 ,
26-405
)
- Bill Text:
First Reading (PDF),
Third Reading, Enrolled
- Fiscal Note:
Available (PDF)
- Amendments:
None offered
