Legislative Session number- 86

Bill Name: SF2051

Relating to impaired driving

ARTICLE 1 REPEALING PRETRIAL SANCTIONS FOR
IMPAIRED DRIVING

Eliminating pretrial application of certain civil penalties
for impaired driving of a snowmobile, all-terrain vehicle or a motorboat;
modifying certain conditions for releasing persons charged with driving while
impaired (DWI); modifying the implied consent law; changing certain reporting
requirements relating to refusal to take test and failure of test; modifying
license revocation procedure for persons refusing to take test and persons
failing test; changing the test certification recipients; modifying provisions
relating to the denial and revocation of licenses of certain violators;
modifying certain license revocation procedures for driving while impaired (DWI)
convictions; prohibiting the issuance of a provisional drivers license or
reinstatement of a regular driver for juveniles convicted of certain violations;
modifying license plate impoundment procedures; modifying vehicle forfeiture
procedures relating to seizing property without process; eliminating the
provision providing for the posting of a security bond of a vehicle returned
before the forfeiture action is determined; eliminating certain presumptions of
vehicle forfeiture; modifying certain administrative forfeiture procedures;
eliminating judicial determinations provisions relating to the forfeiture
procedure; modifying certain impaired driving related rules and limited license
issuance procedures; providing certain fee schedules for misdemeanor offenses
relating to driving while impaired (DWI); repealing certain provisions relating
to mandatory penalties related to drivers license revocation, administrative and
judicial review of license revocation and commercial drivers license
disqualification implied consent provisions

ARTICLE 2 REHABILITATION AND
DRIVER'S LICENSE REINSTATEMENT; B-CARDS

Requiring persons ineligible for
drivers licenses or conditional drivers
licenses due to repeat driving while
impaired (DWI or DUI) or criminal vehicular homicide to complete a prescribed
portion of rehabilitation and agree to continuing abstinence from and monitoring
for alcohol and controlled substances to receive a conditional drivers license;
providing for reinstatement with a B-card license and a waiting period for
limited (conditional) license issuance; classifying driving records as private
after a certain number of years

ARTICLE 3 BREATH TESTING; COMPUTER SOURCE
CODE

Prohibiting the computer source code for the infrared testing equipment
used in measuring alcohol concentration of breath from being admissible into
evidence in trials
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