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Bills · 2015-2016 Regular Session

AB 444

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Relating to: penalties for certain repeat operating-while-intoxicated offenses. (FE)

Drunken driving Early childhood education

  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

This bill eliminates two provisions, altering the penalty for certain offenses

related to drunken driving or driving under the influence of an intoxicant or other

drug (OWI offenses).

Under current law, the penalty increases for a second OWI offense if the person

commits the second offense within ten years of the first offense. Under this bill, a

person who commits a second OWI offense is subject to the increased penalties

regardless of whether the person commits the offense within ten years of his or her

first OWI offense.

Also under current law, the penalty is greater for a fourth OWI offense if the

fourth offense is committed within five years of a prior offense. Under this bill, all

fourth OWI offenses are subject to the same penalty regardless of how much time has

passed since the previous OWI offense.

Sponsors

Introduced by: Berceau (D) , E. Brooks (R) , Edming (R) , Horlacher (R) , J. Ott (R) , Kooyenga (R) , Murphy (R) , Petryk (R) , Thiesfeldt (R)

2 cosponsors

Darling (R) , Marklein (R)

Full history

  1. Oct 22, 2015 · Assembly

    Introduced by Representatives J. Ott, Thiesfeldt, E. Brooks, Horlacher, Berceau, Kooyenga, Murphy, Petryk and Edming; cosponsored by Senators Darling and Marklein

  2. Oct 22, 2015 · Assembly

    Read first time and referred to Committee on Criminal Justice and Public Safety

  3. Apr 13, 2016 · Assembly

    Failed to pass pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 1