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Bills · 2013-2014 Regular Session

AB 68

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Relating to: penalties for driving a vehicle while under the influence of an intoxicant and providing a penalty. (FE)

Drunken driving Implied consent or alcohol concentration Legislature — Criminal penalties, joint review committee on

  1. Introduced, stopped here
  2. Passes Assembly, not reached
  3. Passes Senate, not reached
  4. Governor signs, not reached
  5. Law, not reached

Unfamiliar terms? Glossary

What this bill does

Plain-language analysis by the nonpartisan Legislative Reference Bureau

Under current law, a first offense for operating a motor vehicle while having a

prohibited alcohol concentration (0.08 in most circumstances) or while under the

influence of alcohol, a controlled substance, or both (OWI offense), is a civil violation.

A person who commits a first OWI offense is subject to a forfeiture of not less than

$150 nor more than $300. A second OWI offense is a crime and is punishable by a

fine of not less than $350 nor more than $1,100, imprisonment for not less than five

days nor more than six months, or both. Subsequent OWI offenses are also crimes

punishable by fines and periods of imprisonment that increase with every

subsequent offense.

Under this bill, a person who commits a first OWI offense with an alcohol

concentration of 0.15 or greater is guilty of a crime and may be fined not less than

$350 nor more than $1,100 and imprisoned for not less than five days nor more than

six months. The bill also increases the penalty for a second OWI offense to a fine of

not less than $500 nor more than $1,500, imprisonment for not less than ten days nor

more than six months, or both.

Because this bill creates a new crime or revises a penalty for an existing crime,

the Joint Review Committee on Criminal Penalties may be requested to prepare a

report concerning the proposed penalty and the costs or savings that are likely to

result if the bill is enacted.

What it would cost

Fiscal estimates filed by state agencies, as official PDFs

Sponsors

Introduced by: Endsley (R) , J. Ott (R) , Jacque (R) , Kooyenga (R) , LeMahieu (R) , Stone (R) , T. Larson (R) , Thiesfeldt (R)

5 cosponsors

Carpenter (D) , Darling (R) , Kedzie (R) , Leibham (R) , Risser (D)

Votes

Assembly: Report Assembly Amendment 1 to Assembly Substitute Amendment 1 adoption recommended by Committee on Judiciary, Ayes 9, Noes 0

Passed 9–0 Oct 31, 2013 official source full page

No individual roll call was recorded for this vote. Committee votes and some older sessions record totals only.

Assembly: Report Assembly Substitute Amendment 1 adoption recommended by Committee on Judiciary, Ayes 9, Noes 0

Passed 9–0 Oct 31, 2013 official source full page

No individual roll call was recorded for this vote. Committee votes and some older sessions record totals only.

Assembly: Report passage as amended recommended by Committee on Judiciary, Ayes 9, Noes 0

Passed 9–0 Oct 31, 2013 official source full page

No individual roll call was recorded for this vote. Committee votes and some older sessions record totals only.

Assembly: Read a third time and passed, Ayes 88, Noes 7

Passed 88–7 Nov 5, 2013 official source full page

Aye · 88

Not voting · 1

Full history

  1. Mar 14, 2013 · Assembly

    Introduced by Representatives J. Ott, Stone, Endsley, Kooyenga, T. Larson, Thiesfeldt, Jacque and LeMahieu; cosponsored by Senators Darling, Leibham, Risser, Carpenter and Kedzie

  2. Mar 14, 2013 · Assembly

    Read first time and referred to Committee on Judiciary

  3. Mar 28, 2013 · Assembly

    Fiscal estimate received

  4. Apr 1, 2013 · Assembly

    Fiscal estimate received

  5. Apr 3, 2013 · Assembly

    Fiscal estimate received

  6. Aug 15, 2013 · Assembly

    Public hearing held

  7. Sep 11, 2013 · Assembly

    Assembly Amendment 1 offered by Representative Hebl

  8. Sep 11, 2013 · Assembly

    Assembly Substitute Amendment 1 offered by Representative J. Ott

  9. Sep 12, 2013 · Assembly

    Executive action taken

  10. Sep 12, 2013 · Assembly

    Assembly Amendment 1 to Assembly Substitute Amendment 1 offered by Committee on Judiciary

  11. Oct 31, 2013 · Assembly

    Report Assembly Amendment 1 to Assembly Substitute Amendment 1 adoption recommended by Committee on Judiciary, Ayes 9, Noes 0

  12. Oct 31, 2013 · Assembly

    Report Assembly Substitute Amendment 1 adoption recommended by Committee on Judiciary, Ayes 9, Noes 0

  13. Oct 31, 2013 · Assembly

    Report passage as amended recommended by Committee on Judiciary, Ayes 9, Noes 0

  14. Oct 31, 2013 · Assembly

    Referred to Committee on Rules

  15. Oct 31, 2013 · Assembly

    Placed on calendar 11-5-2013 by Committee on Rules

  16. Nov 1, 2013 · Assembly

    Assembly Amendment 2 to Assembly Substitute Amendment 1 offered by Representative J. Ott

  17. Nov 5, 2013 · Assembly

    Fiscal estimate received

  18. Nov 5, 2013 · Assembly

    Read a second time

  19. Nov 5, 2013 · Assembly

    Referred to joint committee on Finance

  20. Nov 5, 2013 · Assembly

    Withdrawn from joint committee on Finance and taken up

  21. Nov 5, 2013 · Assembly

    Assembly Amendment 1 to Assembly Substitute Amendment 1 adopted

  22. Nov 5, 2013 · Assembly

    Assembly Amendment 2 to Assembly Substitute Amendment 1 adopted

  23. Nov 5, 2013 · Assembly

    Assembly Substitute Amendment 1 adopted

  24. Nov 5, 2013 · Assembly

    Ordered to a third reading

  25. Nov 5, 2013 · Assembly

    Rules suspended

  26. Nov 5, 2013 · Assembly

    Read a third time and passed, Ayes 88, Noes 7

  27. Nov 5, 2013 · Assembly

    Ordered immediately messaged

  28. Nov 6, 2013 · Senate

    Received from Assembly

  29. Nov 6, 2013 · Senate

    Read first time and referred to committee on Transportation, Public Safety, and Veterans and Military Affairs

  30. Jan 24, 2014 · Senate

    Fiscal estimate received

  31. Apr 8, 2014 · Senate

    Failed to concur in pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 1