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Sponsor seeks new civil protection order to curb repeat impaired driving; hearing continued for more review
Summary
Rep. Lauren Davis proposed a new impaired‑driving protection order to let family members, prosecutors or law enforcement petition courts to restrict a person's driving or require monitoring when evidence shows a significant danger; the committee paused the hearing for additional questions and stakeholder follow‑up.
House Bill 1426 would create a new civil protection order, an Impaired Driving Protection Order (IDPO), to allow family members, "interested persons," law enforcement or prosecutors to seek court‑imposed restrictions when a person poses a significant danger of causing injury by driving while impaired.
Sponsor Representative Lauren Davis told the Civil Rights & Judiciary Committee that traffic deaths from impaired drivers are rising and that gaps in prosecution and laboratory backlogs leave communities without timely public‑safety interventions. "Washington recently hit a morbid 30‑year high in traffic fatalities," Davis said, citing 410 impaired‑driver deaths in 2023 and an 80% rise in impaired driving fatalities between 2014 and…
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