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Burton Greene Higher-Risk Impaired Driver Act

Introduced: June 20, 2002 See on congress.gov
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Jul 21, 2002
Referred to the Subcommittee on Highways and Transit.
Jun 20, 2002
Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
Jun 20, 2002
Introduced in House
 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service
Burton Greene Higher-Risk Impaired Driver Act - Requires the Secretary of Transportation, beginning on October 1, 2006, to transfer two percent of a State's Federal-aid highway funds to that State's apportionment solely for impaired driving programs if the State has not enacted or is not enforcing a higher risk impaired driver law.

Defines such a law as one that provides certain minimum penalties for: (1) a second or subsequent offense of driving while intoxicated (DWI) or driving under the influence (DUI) within a minimum of five consecutive years, of DWI or DUI with a blood alcohol concentration of .15 percent or greater, or of driving-while-suspended if the suspension was the result of a DUI conviction; or (2) refusing a blood alcohol concentration test while under arrest or investigation for involvement in a fatal or serious injury crash.

Includes among such penalties: (1) driver's license suspension; (2) motor vehicle impoundment or immobilization; (3) assessment by a certified substance abuse official and assignment to treatment; (4) imprisonment, attachment of an electronic monitoring device, or assignment to a DUI/DWI specialty facility; (5) a $1,000 fine; (6) required restitution; (7) probation; and (8) required attendance of a treatment program and a victim impact panel.

What's happening now July 21, 2002

Referred to the Subcommittee on Highways and Transit.

 Committees of jurisdiction 2
 Cosponsors 2
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