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House approves lowering legal BAC to 0.05 after extended floor debate
Summary
Representative Thurston’s first substitute to HB 155 would lower Utah’s blood‑alcohol limit to 0.05; lawmakers debated enforcement, behavior change, and trade‑offs before the House passed the measure 48–26.
The Utah House on Monday approved first substitute House Bill 155, a proposal to lower the legal blood‑alcohol concentration (BAC) threshold for impaired driving from 0.08 to 0.05.
Representative Thurston, the bill sponsor, told colleagues the measure aligns Utah with international practice and cited studies estimating roughly an 11 percent reduction in alcohol‑related traffic fatalities if the change were…
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