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House Judiciary Committee advances bill making third DUI a felony
Summary
The House Judiciary Committee adopted a committee substitute and reported House Bill 220 favorably after debate on escalating penalties, ignition-interlock requirements and mandatory substance‑abuse provisions that would apply to third-or-greater DUI offenses.
The Kentucky House Judiciary Committee adopted a committee substitute and reported House Bill 220 favorably after debate on reclassifying a third driving‑under‑the‑influence (DUI) offense as a felony and applying existing interlock and treatment requirements to third‑or‑greater offenses.
Representative Rebecca Raymer, the bill sponsor, summarized the committee substitute as focused on under‑21 DUI penalties and said it would introduce escalating fines for drivers under 21 and mirror ignition‑interlock rules used for those 21 and older. "The committee sub actually looks at our under 21 DUI laws," Raymer said. "…this is just going to have increasing monetary funds, and then it mimics the interlock laws that we currently have for our above 21 DUIs."
Blake Chambers, Commonwealth's Attorney…
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