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Senate Judiciary considers edits to H.44 on impaired-driving law; seeks strike-all amendment
Summary
The Senate Judiciary reviewed proposed technical and substantive changes to H.44, a bill revising impaired-driving statutes, focusing on federal ‘‘masking’’ compliance for commercial driver license records and how criminal refusal to give evidentiary blood samples should be defined and charged.
The Senate Judiciary convened April 15 to review amendments to H.44, a bill that makes miscellaneous changes to Vermont impaired-driving laws. Ben O’Brien, Office of Legislative Council, told the committee the Department of Motor Vehicles’ general counsel raised a federal compliance issue and proposed fixes, and staff recommended preparing a strike-all amendment for floor consideration.
The committee’s most immediate concern was federal ‘‘masking’’ rules that prevent states from suppressing or deferring entries on the Commercial Driver’s License (CDL) record database. "The state must not mask, defer imposition of the judgment, or allow an individual to enter into a diversion program that would prevent a commercial driver's license holder from appearing…
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