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Committee weighs expanding preliminary roadside screening to oral‑fluid tests for drugs and alcohol
Summary
Representative Steve Kelly and law‑enforcement witnesses described HB 467 as adding oral‑fluid (saliva) screening for alcohol and drugs analogous to preliminary breath tests; police said devices are primarily screening tools, not evidentiary tests, and would be one data point in a broader DUI investigation.
Representative Steve Kelly introduced House Bill 467, a narrowly focused measure to permit oral‑fluid (saliva) screening as a preliminary test for alcohol and to codify oral‑fluid devices already used for drug screening. "It's just a screening test," Kelly said, comparing it to the existing preliminary breath test and emphasizing that the device would not be an evidentiary test.
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