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Driving Under the Influence | AL H 477

Category | Drunk Driving
Relates to driving under the influence and ignition interlock devices; authorizes the Department of Public Safety to withdraw the driver’s license suspension of certain persons for a first conviction of driving under the influence if the judge orders the offender or the offender elects to have an ignition interlock device installed and operating; allows driver’s.

Driving Under the Influence | AL S 401

Category | Drunk Driving
Amends Sections 32-5A-191, as amended by Act 2012-363 of the 2012 Regular Session, 32-5A-191.4, 32-5A-301, and 32-5A-304, Code of Alabama 1975, relating to driving under the influence and ignition interlock devices; authorizes the Department of Public Safety to withdraw the driver’s license suspension of certain persons for a first conviction of driving under the influence if the judge orders the offender or the offender elects to have an ignition interlock device installed and operating.

Vehicular Accidents and Blood Testing | AL H 120

Category | Drugged Driving
Amends Section 325200, Code of Alabama 1975, to require all persons involved in an accident that results in death or a serious physical injury to submit to a blood test; authorizes law enforcement officers to take reasonable steps to obtain a blood sample; provides immunity to certain health care providers administering blood tests at the direction of law enforcement.

Driving While Under the Influence | AL S 170

Category | Drugged Driving
Amends Section 325A191 of the Code of Alabama 1975, as last amended by Act 2012363 of the 2012 Regular Session, relating to driving while under the influence; defines the offense and to define the term under the influence for the purpose of unsafe driving; prohibits a person from driving who has a measurable amount of specified substances in the person’s body; provides for a minimum mandatory sentence for a fourth or subsequent violation.

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California

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Vehicles: Electronic Wireless Communications Devices | CA AB 313

Category | Distracted Driving
Deletes an exception to the prohibition for the use, while driving, of an electronic wireless communications device that is specifically designed and configures to allow voice-operated and hands-free operation to dictate, send, or listen to a text-based communication. Relates to distracted driving.

Vehicles: Driver’s Licenses: Application Requirements | CA AB 840

Category | Distracted Driving
Requires that every application for an original or renewal of a driver’s license also contain a statement requiring the applicant to acknowledge that he or she knows of the dangers of distracted driving.

Vehicles: Driving Under the Influence: Drugs | CA S 289

Category | Drugged Driving
Makes it unlawful for a person to drive a motor vehicle if his or her blood contains any drug classified in Schedules I, II, III, or IV of the State Uniform Controlled Substance Act, unless the drug was consumed in accordance with a valid prescription.

Colorado

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Parole Eligibility For Vehicular Homicide Conviction | CO H 1217

Category | Drunk Driving
Concerns parole eligibility of a person convicted of vehicular homicide.

Felony Classification for Repeat DUI Offenders | CO H 1214

Category | Drunk Driving
Felony for Repeat DUI Offenders.

Driving Under the Influence Penalties | CO D 4

Category | Drugged Driving
(Bill D) Concerns penalties for persons who drive while under the influence of alcohol or drugs.

Marijuana and Driving Offenses | CO H 1114

Category | Drugged Driving
Concerns penalties for persons who drive while under the influence of alcohol or drugs.

Connecticut

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Motor Vehicle Insurance and Distracted Driving | CT H 6033

Category | Distracted Driving
Concerns motor vehicle insurance providers and distracted driving; specifies violations and fines for using a mobile device while operating a motor vehicle; requires that distracted driving violations appear in a motor vehicle operator’s driving history record accessible to motor vehicle insurance providers.

Transportation Statutes | CT S 975

Category | Distracted Driving
Concerns revisions to the transportation statutes; revises the procedures of the Department of Transportation concerning the sale or disposition of property; authorizes the Commissioner of Transportation to enter into agreements with the state of Vermont concerning the New Haven-Hartford-Springfield rail line; allows the commissioner to delegate certain authority to bureau heads; allows the department to issue filming permits for persons seeking to film on state highways.

Delaware

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District Of Columbia

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Comprehensive Impaired Driving and Alcohol Testing | DC B 205

Category | Distracted Driving

(Emergency Act) Relates to the Comprehensive Impaired Driving and Alcohol Testing Program Second Congressional Review Emergency Amendment Act of 2013.

Florida

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Alcohol or Drug Impairment | FL H 1291

Category| Drugged Driving
Relates to alcohol or drug impairment; provides that person commits offenses of driving or boating while impaired if driver satisfies specified criteria relating to consumption of alcohol or controlled substances; provides that person commits offense of driving while impaired if person has in blood or urine certain controlled substances in specified circumstances.

Georgia

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Hawaii

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Mobile Electronic Devices | HI H 980

Category | Distracted Driving
Creates a new law prohibiting the use of mobile electronic devices while operating a motor vehicle within the state of Hawaii; establishes penalties.

Idaho

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Illinois

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School Code | IL S 2213

Category | Distracted Driving
Amends the School Code; provides that a school district may offer a driver education course in a school by contracting with a commercial driver training school to provide both the classroom instruction part and the practice driving part or either one without having to request a modification or waiver of administrative rules of the State Board of Education; provides that if a district chooses to contract with a commercial driver training school, then the district must provide evidence of accreditation.

School Code | IL H 3173

Category | Distracted Driving
Amends the School Code; removes the maximum fee amount that a school district may charge to a student who participates in a driver education course.

Vehicle Code | IL H 772

Category | Drunk Driving
Amends the Vehicle Code; provides that persons between specified ages shall not be issued or allowed to renew a driver’s license without completing a driver education course; provides for the certification of course providers; provides that course providers may be allowed to offer courses online; requires the establishment of a system of electronic verification of a student’s completion of the course; requires the maintenance of a list of course providers and prices on a specified website.

Indiana

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Chemical Tests for Intoxication | IN S 168

Category | Drugged Driving
Relates to chemical tests for intoxication; provides that a bodily substance sample may be taken by a person qualified through training, experience, or education to obtain a bodily substance sample; specifies that provisions describing the procedures for obtaining a bodily substance sample do not prohibit a court from issuing a search warrant to obtain a bodily substance sample.

Iowa

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Distracting Activity | IA S 33

Category | Distracted Driving
Prohibits a person from engaging in a distracting activity while operating a motor vehicle; repeals which prohibits a person from using a hand-held electronic communication device to write, send, or read a text message while driving a motor vehicle; provides that the only enforceable as a secondary action when a peace officer stops or detains a driver for a suspected violation of another motor vehicle law; provides that a violation is punishable by a scheduled fine of $30, with higher penalties applicable.

Chemical Test | IA H 371

Category | Drugged Driving
Relates to the mandatory submission to a chemical test by a driver of a motor vehicle involved in an accident involving death and making civil remedies applicable; provides that, notwithstanding any other provision to the contrary, a person who operates a motor vehicle who is involved in a motor vehicle accident or collision resulting in death shall submit to a chemical test of the person’s blood to determine the alcohol concentration or the presence of a controlled substance or other drugs as soon as/.

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Kentucky

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Consent To Blood Tests in Serious Accidents | KY H 421

Category | Drugged Driving
Relates to consent to blood tests in serious accidents; provides that a person consents to a blood test when the person is involved in a motor vehicle accident involving serious physical injury or death; prohibits a medical practitioner or medical facility from requiring the person to sign a waiver of liability in order to have the blood sample drawn; provides that upon a person’s refusal to submit to a blood test, the investigating police officer shall apply for a search warrant.

Louisiana

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Traffic | LA S 147

Category | Distracted Driving
Prohibits any device from being used to access, read, or post to a social networking site while operating a motor vehicle.

Maine

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Driving Under the Influence of Marijuana | MA SD 1736

Category | Drugged Driving
Protects the public from driving under the influence of marijuana.

Driving Under the Influence of Drugs | MA S 1708

Category | Drugged Driving
Increases protection against drivers under the influence of drugs; relates to prosecution for certain violations, evidence of blood alcohol content, certain court order requirements, and other matters.

Alcohol Testing | MA HD 748

Category | Drunk Driving
Expands testing for operating a motor vehicle under the influence of alcohol.

Mandatory Blood Tests for Surviving Drivers | MA HD 478

Category | Drugged Driving
Relates to mandatory blood tests for surviving drivers.

Maryland

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Vehicle Laws Accidents | MD H 150

Category | Drugged Driving
Requires a police officer who detains a driver who was involved in a motor vehicle accident that resulted in the death of, or a lifethreatening injury to another person, to require the driver to submit to specified drug and alcohol testing.

Vehicle Laws | MD H 627

Category | Drugged Driving
Requires a person involved in a motor vehicle accident that results in an injury to another person that requires the removal of the other person to a medical facility to submit to specified drug or alcohol testing if the person is detained by a police officer who has reasonable grounds to believe that the person has been driving or attempting to drive in violation of specified drug or alcoholrelated driving restrictions.

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Minnesota

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Public Safety | MN S 430

Category | Drunk Driving
Relates to public safety; provides for an aggressive initiative against chemical dependency; increases the tax on alcoholic beverages to fund this initiative; eliminates obsolete language and making technical corrections; appropriates money.

Public Safety | MN S 867

Category | Drunk Driving
Relates to public safety; modifies driver’s license suspension and revocation provisions for certain persons who commit criminal vehicular operation offenses; expands the ignition interlock device program to include these offenders.

Ignition Interlock | MN H 1549

Category | Drunk Driving
Expands the ignition interlock program to persons convicted of DWI-related criminal vehicular operation (CVO) offense; provides that if a person is believed to have committed a DWI-related CVO offense, allows suspension of a driver’s license upon certification of probable cause and creates an exception to the implied consent advisory if the officer is not pursuing an implied consent advisory revocation.

Mississippi

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Montana

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Use of Electronic Devices While Driving | MT D 1362

Category | Distracted Driving
Prohibits use of electronic devices while driving; relates to safety; relates to traffic regulations.

DUI Laws | MT D 790

Category | Drunk Driving
Revises DUI laws; relates to alcohol and drugs; relates to law enforcement.

DUI Laws | MT H 168

Category | Drugged Driving
Revises DUI laws; provides a legal limit for the amount of delta9tetrahydrocannabinol allowed be present in a person’s blood while operating a motor vehicle; includes commercial and noncommercial vehicles; provides that a law enforcement officer may apply for a search warrant.

Nebraska

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New Jersey

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Task Force on Distracted Driving | NJ A 3842

Category | Distracted Driving
Creates Task Force on Distracted Driving.

Texting While Driving Health Education Instruction | NJ A 3032

Category | Distracted Driving
Requires school districts to provide instruction on the dangers of texting while driving as part of the Core Curriculum Content Standards in Comprehensive Health and Physical Education.

Motor Vehicle Accidents Resulting In Death | NJ S 359

Category | Drugged Driving
Requires breath or blood sample to be obtained from driver involved in motor vehicle accident resulting in death or serious bodily injury.

Driving Under the Influence Standards | NJ A 455

Category | Drugged Driving
Establishes per se standard for driving under the influence of drugs.

New Mexico

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New York

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Driving While Ability Impaired | NY A 1616

Category | Drunk Driving
Amends the Vehicle & Traffic Law; increases the criminal penalties and fines for driving while ability impaired and driving while intoxicated or while ability impaired by drugs and further increases penalties for aggravated unlicensed operation of a vehicle in the first and second degrees.

Additional Sentencing Option of Impoundment | NY A 3850

Category | Drunk Driving
Amends the Vehicle & Traffic Law; grants the court an additional sentencing option of impoundment of the vehicle operated by a person convicted of driving while intoxicated (DWI) or driving while ability impaired (DWAI), for definite periods of time depending on the seriousness of the crime; establishes procedure for impounding vehicles driven while under the influence of alcohol or drugs and for the redemption of such vehicles following such impoundment.

Drivers Who Cause Accidents Which Result in Injury | NY A 2570

Category | Drugged Driving
Provides that drivers who cause accidents which result in serious physical injury or death while talking on a cellular phone shall be subject to identical criminal penalties as those persons who cause accidents which result in serious physical injury or death while driving under the influence of drugs or alcohol; imposes a penalty of two points against a person’s license when convicted of a violation of driving while using a cellular phone.

Implementing Impairment Testing in Traffic Accidents | NY A 1590

Category | Drugged Driving
Requires breath or blood sample to be obtained from driver involved in motor vehicle accident resulting in death or serious bodily injury.

North Carolina

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Driving While Impaired | NC H 43

Category | Drunk Driving
Requires anyone who is convicted of driving while impaired, driving after consuming alcohol being less than twenty-one years of age, or any other impaired driving offense, or any person who refuses a chemical analysis, to have an ignition interlock system installed on every vehicle that person may drive before that person can get a limited driving privilege; provides for the payment of an administrative fee and costs associated with an ignition interlock system.

Video Recording Device for DWI Stops | NC S 449

Category | Drunk Driving
Requires all breath-testing sites and law enforcement vehicles engaged in traffic enforcement to be equipped with a video recording device; requires the recording of all impaired driving offenses at the incident site and the breath-testing site unless such recording is impossible; requires a fee be assessed to a person convicted of driving while impaired to offset the cost of operating the video recording systems.

Special License Plate for DWI Offenders | NC H 812

Category | Drunk Driving
Requires persons convicted of impaired driving to have a special license plate of a different color.

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Oregon

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Sobriety Checkpoint | OR S 94

Category | Drunk Driving
Authorizes law enforcement agencies to establish sobriety checkpoints; takes effect only if Senate Joint Resolution 2 (2013) is approved by people at next regular general election; takes effect on effective date of constitutional amendment proposed in Senate Joint Resolution 2 (2013).

Possession of Alcoholic Beverage | OR H 2773

Category | Drunk Driving
Permits person to enter into driving while under influence of intoxicants diversion agreement even if person has already entered treatment following charge of minor in possession of alcoholic beverage or charge of possession of less than one ounce of marijuana.

Driving Under Influence of Intoxicants | OR H 2115

Category | Drugged Driving
Expands offense of driving while under influence of intoxicants to include any drug that adversely affects person’s physical or mental faculties to noticeable or perceptible degree; defines “intoxicant.” Provides affirmative defense; permits conviction of driving while under influence of intoxicants even if accusatory instrument does not plead fact that person was under influence of controlled substance or inhalant.

Driving Under the Influence | OR D 180

Category | Drugged Driving
Expands offense of driving while under influence of intoxicants to include any drug that adversely affects persons physical or mental faculties to noticeable or perceptible degree.

Pennsylvania

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Distracted Driving Awareness Month | PA HR 154

Category | Distracted Driving
Designates the month of April 2013 as Distracted Driving Awareness Month.

Rhode Island

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Motor Vehicles Operators and Chauffeurs Licenses | RI H 5655
Category | Distracted Driving
Would require distracted driving issues, including cell phone use, to be tested as part of the state driver’s license exam. This act would take effect upon passage.

South Carolina

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Careless Driving | SC H 3630

Category | Distracted Driving
Creates the offense of careless driving and to provide penalties; relates to reckless driving; provides that reckless driving includes distracted driving or inattentive driving that includes texting while driving when bodily injury occurs; relates to the assessment of points against a person’s driving record for certain motor vehicle violations; provides that points must be assessed against the driving record of a person convicted of careless driving.

Electronic Communication Device | SC H 3858

Category | Distracted Driving
Provides that it is unlawful for a person to use an electronic communication device while driving a motor vehicle under certain circumstances; provides a penalty; provides for the distribution of monies collected from fines associated with violations of this provision; relates to the assessment of points against a person’s driving record for certain motor vehicle violations.

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Utah

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Traffic and Public Safety Codes | UT H 128

Category | Drunk Driving
Modifies the Traffic Code and the Public Safety Code by amending provisions relating to certain driver license suspension periods; amends the driver license suspension periods for a person who is under 19 years of age and is convicted of certain alcohol and drug related offenses; amends the amount of time that a court may shorten a person’s driver license suspension for certain alcohol or drug related offenses prior to the completion of the suspension period if the person is under 19 years of age.

Vermont

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Virginia

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Distracted Driving Awareness Month | VA HJR 727

Category | Distracted Driving
Designates April of 2013 and in each succeeding year, as Distracted Driving Awareness Month in the state; includes texting and driving.

Washington

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Motor Vehicle Related Violations Penalty | WA S 5534

Category | Drunk Driving
Assesses a penalty on certain motor vehicle-related violations to provide funding for the state strategic highway safety plan.

Impaired Driving | WA H 1482

Modifies provisions that address impaired driving.

Improving Impaired Driving Safety and Enforcement | WA S 5915

Funds and requires the use of distributions from the additional tax on beer and strong beer for improving impaired driving safety and enforcement.

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