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Senate committee considers multiple DWI measures: plate impoundment changes, interlock timelines and expanded eligibility
Summary
The committee reviewed several related DWI bills: a proposal to use tamper-evident stickers rather than removing plates at the roadside, changes to temporary permit durations, a bill to restore or clarify judicial review of ignition-interlock extensions, and a larger reform package to expand interlock look-back and eligibility.
The Senate Judiciary and Public Safety Committee considered a package of DWI-related bills covering license-plate impoundment procedures, temporary permits, ignition-interlock program duration and eligibility, and appellate review of administrative interlock extensions.
Senate File 1484 (Sen. John Lats) would permit law enforcement to place a tamper-evident permanent sticker over license plates subject to impoundment rather than removing and destroying plates on-scene; it also proposed extending temporary permits for vehicles from seven to 14 days in many cases and a 45-day allowance for certain results tied to chemical tests. Defence attorney Charles Siegel, representing criminal-defense organizations and serving on the DWI task force, supported the sticker option and explained practical…
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