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HB 1693 Driving under influence; mandatory punishment when concentration is elevated above certain amount.
Introduced by: David B. Albo | all patrons ... notes | add to my profiles
SUMMARY AS PASSED HOUSE: (all summaries)
Mandatory minimum punishment for DUI; elevated blood alcohol. Adds an additional qualifier in DUI punishment provisions that allows use of blood alcohol testing on whole blood to be admitted into evidence in a DUI prosecution, thus allowing mandatory punishments to be imposed when the blood alcohol concentration is elevated but the test may have been performed in another, e.g., hospital, setting.
FULL TEXT
- 01/05/09 House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/14/09 094308404 pdf | impact statement
- 01/26/09 House: Committee substitute printed 090542404-H1 pdf | impact statement
- 03/09/09 House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1693ER) pdf | impact statement
- 03/27/09 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0229) pdf
AMENDMENTS
HISTORY
- 01/05/09 House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/14/09 094308404
- 01/05/09 House: Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
- 01/16/09 House: Assigned Courts sub: Criminal
- 01/21/09 House: Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendment(s)
- 01/23/09 House: Reported from Courts of Justice with substitute (19-Y 0-N)
- 01/26/09 House: Committee substitute printed 090542404-H1
- 01/27/09 House: Read first time
- 01/28/09 House: Read second time
- 01/28/09 House: Committee substitute agreed to 090542404-H1
- 01/28/09 House: Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB1693H1
- 01/29/09 House: Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (99-Y 0-N)
- 01/29/09 House: VOTE: BLOCK VOTE PASSAGE (99-Y 0-N)
- 01/30/09 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed
- 01/30/09 Senate: Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
- 02/11/09 Senate: Assigned Courts sub: Criminal
- 02/23/09 Senate: Reported from Courts of Justice with amendments (13-Y 0-N)
- 02/24/09 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N)
- 02/25/09 Senate: Read third time
- 02/25/09 Senate: Reading of amendments waived
- 02/25/09 Senate: Committee amendments agreed to
- 02/25/09 Senate: Engrossed by Senate as amended
- 02/25/09 Senate: Passed Senate with amendments (28-Y 12-N)
- 02/26/09 House: Placed on Calendar
- 02/26/09 House: Senate amendments agreed to by House (98-Y 0-N)
- 02/26/09 House: VOTE: --- ADOPTION (98-Y 0-N)
- 03/09/09 House: Enrolled
- 03/09/09 House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1693ER)
- 03/10/09 Senate: Signed by President
- 03/11/09 House: Signed by Speaker
- 03/27/09 Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 229 (effective 7/1/09)
- 03/27/09 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0229)