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Senate committee advances bill to lower legal BAC to 0.05 after survivor and public-health testimony
Summary
Senate Committee on Transportation and Culture and the Arts voted to pass SB 1285 with amendments and refer it to the Judiciary Committee after extensive testimony from public-health groups, survivors and law-enforcement representatives about a proposed 0.05 blood-alcohol limit.
The Senate Committee on Transportation and Culture and the Arts voted to advance SB 1285, a bill that would establish an offense for operating a vehicle while impaired at a lower blood-alcohol concentration (0.05), after hours of testimony from survivors, public-health advocates and legal officials.
Supporters, including the Hawaii Public Health Institute and survivors who described catastrophic crashes, urged the panel to adopt the…
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