An Edmond legislator is calling for tougher driving-under-the- influence laws in the wake of an accident that killed a 20-year-old Oklahoma State University student. Speaking at a Capitol press conference Wednesday afternoon, Republican state Sen. Clark Jolley said a legislative proposal would tighten the state's DUI laws and take another step toward getting drunken drivers off the road. The measure, the Erin Elizabeth Swezey Act, would require anyone convicted of a DUI to have an ignition interlock device installed in his or her vehicle for at least two years.
Arizona's policymakers are taking a hard, second look at the state's current set of driving-under-the-influence laws, regarded to be the toughest in the nation, to see whether they might have gone too far. The liquor industry argues that the state has overreached by enacting a handful of oppressive DUI laws that have depressed alcohol sales. Consumers who normally would order a drink or two during dinner are abstaining, leaders in the hospitality industry have said, because they fear the heftier punishments for first-time offenders, those with repeated violations and the most intoxicated of drivers.
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Beleaguered legislation aimed at changing the state's DUI laws is nearing the finish line once again - this time without a provision that resulted in the governor's veto earlier this session. On June 2, the Senate passed a measure carrying an amendment that would fix a discrepancy in statute that arose from the passage of driving-under-the-influence laws last year. A day later, the House of Representatives approved the measure and sent it to the governor.
On two nights a month apart this year, Takia Johnson drew the attention of Metropolitan Police Department officers, who pulled over her car and took her into custody on charges she was driving under the influence of PCP. But Ms. Johnson by day continued in her city job - enforcing the laws of the D.C. Department of Public Works as a parking officer, despite the arrests.
Washington prides itself on having one of the toughest driving under the influence laws in the nation. Yet a recent, revealing report by the Seattle Times clearly shows it also has at least one loophole big enough for a convicted DUI offender to drive a truck through -- drunk or sober. Since 2004, this state has had the option of requiring ignition interlocks on vehicles operated by people convicted of DUI. The devices work on a simple premise: The would-be driver blows into the device and if he or she has been drinking and it's recorded, the vehicle won't start.
Two new laws requiring the installation of ignition inhibitors in the vehicles of driving-under-the-influence offenders could boost business for Oklahoma vendors with approved devices. Senate Bill 529 requires ignition inhibitors, also called interlocks, for first-time DUI offenders with a blood or breath alcohol content of 0.15 or more for one and a half years. Second- time offenders must have the inhibitors for four years, and third- time offenders and above must have one for five years.
HELENA, Mont. - A Montana justice of the peace set to preside over a DUI court later this year has been charged with driving under the influence of drugs after authorities said he stumbled sweating and disoriented into a police station. The misdemeanor charge filed Thursday against Robert E. Lee is the latest in a string of DUI reports involving high-profile officials as Montana lawmakers consider stricter laws aimed at changing attitudes of acceptance toward driving under the influence.
In its 2002 state rankings, the advocacy group Mothers Against Drunk Driving gave Washington a grade of C-plus on its overall effort to reduce drunken driving. But a MADD lobbyist says that ranking will improve as a result of a new drunken-driving law passed during last winter's legislative session and signed by Gov. Gary Locke. The law, which went into effect June 10, makes Washington's driving-under- the-influence laws among the toughest in the country.
On May 5 the Legislature will hold a public hearing on LD 1491, "An Act to Strengthen the Laws against Driving under the Influence of Drugs." Any strengthening would come at the expense of ordinary citizens engaged in the benign daily activity of driving after taking their prescription medication. The bill would subject those over age 21 to a license suspension of the same duration as an OUI suspension on an administrative finding that, more likely than not, they drove a motor vehicle with any detectable drugs in their blood or urine. Absence of impairment is no defense, and in the motor vehicle code the term "drugs" is defined to include all prescription drugs.
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