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House amends and advances bill tightening impaired-driving rules, adds task force on processing
Summary
H.44, a multi-section bill amending Vermont impaired-driving laws, was amended, advanced to third reading and includes statutory clarifications, a new criminal refusal provision tied to warrant-based blood draws, reporting changes to the DMV and creation of an impaired-driving processing task force.
Montpelier — The Vermont House passed committee amendments and ordered third reading of H.44 on Feb. 18. The bill makes technical and substantive changes to impaired-driving statutes, clarifies reporting to the Department of Motor Vehicles and creates an impaired-driving processing task force charged with proposing legislative fixes.
Key provisions: H.44 includes technical corrections to family-division jurisdiction language; adds “serious bodily injury” to applicable definitions; creates a criminal-refusal offense tied to noncompliance with a warrant-based evidentiary blood draw; aligns civil license-suspension…
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