Bills · 2009-2010 Regular Session
maintaining records of certain driving offenses related to operating a motor vehicle while intoxicated.
- Introduced, stopped here
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Unfamiliar terms? Glossary
What this bill does
Plain-language analysis by the nonpartisan Legislative Reference Bureau
Under current law, the Department of Transportation (DOT) maintains a
record of a licensed driver's driving history. Currently, DOT maintains permanently
a person's record of convictions, suspensions, or revocations that are related to
operating a vehicle while intoxicated (OWI), except that records of a person's first
offense for most violations related to OWI are purged after ten years if: 1) the person
had a blood alcohol concentration of 0.08 or more but less than 0.1 at the time of the
violation; 2) the person does not have a commercial driver license; 3) the violation
was not committed by a person operating a commercial motor vehicle; and 4) the
person does not commit another OWI-related offense during the ten-year period.
Under this bill, DOT is required to purge, after ten years, a person's record of
any conviction, suspension, or revocation that is related to OWI, unless the offense
was committed by a person with a commercial driver license or who was operating
a commercial motor vehicle at the time of the offense.