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Sponsor seeks to tighten impaired-driver education and allow out-of-state completion
Summary
Senate Bill 143 would update the impaired driving care management program: require re-enrollment for repeat offenders within five years, allow out-of-state residents to complete approved equivalent programs without preapproval, and permit out-of-state residents arrested here to receive services in their home state under certain conditions.
Sen. Sue Prentice, prime sponsor of Senate Bill 143, told the Judiciary Committee the bill cleans up statutory authority for the impaired driving care management program and strengthens requirements to improve public safety.
The bill’s changes fall into four areas: remove a provision that restricts the program to one-time completion (so repeat offenders within a five-year window would be required to repeat screening/treatment), permit out-of-state…
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