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House approves expansion of youth substance-safety program and new license-suspension penalties
Summary
Lawmakers on March 12 adopted committee amendments to H.105 to expand the Youth Substance Awareness Safety Program, reclassify certain impaired-driving incidents for people under 21 as civil violations, and impose initial and escalated license suspensions tied to program participation.
Representative Goodnow (Brattleboro), speaking for the judiciary committee, presented a strike-all amendment to House Bill 105 to expand Vermont’s Youth Substance Awareness Safety Program and to create immediate license-suspension consequences for certain impaired-driving incidents by youth.
Under the committee amendment, certain impaired-driving violations by people under 21 with a breath sample at or above 0.02 would be treated as civil violations handled by the Judicial Bureau rather than delinquency matters…
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