* - Indicates bills that qualified for your report because of their entry date in your private file.
+ - Indicates bills that qualified for your report because actions were entered for the bill.
Private file: Master
+AK H 19
AUTHOR: Meyer (R)
TITLE: Limited Drivers Licenses
INTRODUCED: 01/16/2007
LAST AMEND: 04/10/2008
DISPOSITION: Enacted
LOCATION: Chaptered
SUMMARY:
Relates to ignition interlock devices; limits driver's license privileges; relates to the crime of avoidance of ignition interlock device when a person knowingly circumvents or tampers with the device or rents a motor vehicle to a person who has an ignition interlock limited license; provides for court procedure for sentencing relating to convictions of driving under the influence of an alcoholic beverage, inhalant or controlled substance.
   
*+AL H 14
AUTHOR: Keahey (D)
TITLE: Alcoholic Beverage Offenses
INTRODUCED: 02/05/2008
DISPOSITION: Failed - Adjourned
LOCATION: House Judiciary Committee
SUMMARY:
Relates to unlawful acts, offenses, and penalties concerning alcoholic beverages; provides for a person convicted of selling, delivering, furnishing, or giving alcoholic beverages to a person less than 21 years of age to surrender his or her license to operate a motor vehicle in this state for a period not less than three months nor more than six months; provides that the adjudicating judge shall forward a copy of the order to the Department of Public Safety.
   
*+AL H 77
AUTHOR: Dunn (D)
TITLE: Driving Under the Influence
INTRODUCED: 02/05/2008
DISPOSITION: Failed - Adjourned
LOCATION: SENATE
SUMMARY:
Relates to a conviction of driving while under the influence of alcohol; provides for the installation and use of a certified ignition interlock device on a motor vehicle; requires any person whose driving privileges are subject to the installation and use of a certified ignition interlock device on a motor vehicle to obtain a license that states the restriction; provides for a fee for that license; provides for a penalty for persons who assist a person whose driving privileges are restricted.
   
*+AL H 87
COMPANION: AL S 105
AUTHOR: Ball (R)
TITLE: Municipal Ordinance Violations
INTRODUCED: 02/05/2008
DISPOSITION: Failed - Adjourned
LOCATION: HOUSE
SUMMARY:
Provides for the penalties for violations of municipal ordinances; provides that the fines for driving under the influence, reckless driving, and operating a vessel under the influence provided in municipal court may be the same as the fines provided by state law.
   
*+AL H 112
AUTHOR: Buskey (D)
TITLE: Driver Licenses
INTRODUCED: 02/05/2008
DISPOSITION: Failed - Adjourned
LOCATION: House Public Safety Committee
SUMMARY:
Relates to persons to whom a driver's license may not be issued; provides for the issuance of a hardship driver's license for persons whose driving right or privilege is suspended.
   
*+AL H 174
AUTHOR: Hurst (D)
TITLE: Drug or Alcohol Related Driver License Suspensions
INTRODUCED: 02/05/2008
LAST AMEND: 04/16/2008
DISPOSITION: Failed - Adjourned
LOCATION: SENATE
SUMMARY:
Relates to the suspension of the driver's license of an individual for certain drug or alcohol related violations; provides for suspension when the individual is ordered to enter an in-patient drug or alcohol rehabilitation facility or voluntarily enters a facility approved by the court; provides that an individual would be credited for the time actually spent in a facility if the individual is released by the facility.
   
*+AL H 176
COMPANION: AL S 123
AUTHOR: Hurst (D)
TITLE: Driving Under the Influence
INTRODUCED: 02/05/2008
DISPOSITION: Failed - Adjourned
LOCATION: House Judiciary Committee
SUMMARY:
Relates to Alabama's DUI law; relates to the mandatory sentence of at least double the minimum punishment for a person convicted of DUI who has .15 percent or more by weight of alcohol in his or her blood within 4 hours of operating or being in control of a motor vehicle; clarifying that any prior conviction, regardless of date and regardless of whether it was in state or out of state, will count as a prior conviction for purposes of sentencing repeat offenders.
   
*+AL H 229
AUTHOR: Ward (R)
TITLE: Assault Crimes
INTRODUCED: 02/05/2008
DISPOSITION: Failed - Adjourned
LOCATION: House Judiciary Committee
SUMMARY:
Provides that a person commits the crime of assault in the second degree if, while driving under the influence of alcohol or a controlled substance or any combination thereof, he or she causes bodily injury to another person with a motor vehicle.
   
*+AL H 463
AUTHOR: Keahey (D)
TITLE: Driving Under the Influence Penalties
INTRODUCED: 02/14/2008
DISPOSITION: Failed - Adjourned
LOCATION: HOUSE
SUMMARY:
Relates to driving under the influence; defines the crime and provides penalties; provides for a mandatory minimum sentence for a first offense; authorizes a court to reduce or suspend the period of suspension of a driver's license and require the use of a certified ignition interlock device under certain conditions; provides for mandatory minimum penalties for repeat offenders.
   
*+AL H 720
AUTHOR: Treadaway (R)
TITLE: Illegal Immigration
INTRODUCED: 03/13/2008
DISPOSITION: Failed - Adjourned
LOCATION: House Judiciary Committee
SUMMARY:
Relates to illegal immigration; makes it a crime for a person to transport, conceal, harbor, or in any way protect an illegal alien from detection from state or federal authorities; regulates the creation of identification cards and define who may issue the cards, who may be issued the cards, and any exemptions; requires that a reasonable effort be made to determine the citizenship status of a person charged with a felony or driving under the influence; creates Alabama verified employee identification card.
   
*+AL HR 567
AUTHOR: House Rules Committee
TITLE: Special Order Calendar
INTRODUCED: 04/16/2008
DISPOSITION: Adopted
LOCATION: Adopted
SUMMARY:
Proposes a special order calendar.
   
*+AL S 13
AUTHOR: Erwin (R)
TITLE: Crimes and Offenses
INTRODUCED: 02/05/2008
DISPOSITION: Failed - Adjourned
LOCATION: Senate Judiciary Committee
SUMMARY:
Relates to criminally negligent homicide caused by driving under the influence; requires a minimum sentence.
   
*+AL S 105
COMPANION: AL H 87
AUTHOR: Griffith (D)
TITLE: Violations Of Municipal Ordinances
INTRODUCED: 02/05/2008
DISPOSITION: Failed - Adjourned
LOCATION: SENATE
SUMMARY:
Provides for the penalties for violations of municipal ordinances; provides that the fines for driving under the influence, reckless driving, and operating a vessel under the influence provided in municipal court may be the same as the fines provided by state law.
   
*+AL S 123
COMPANION: AL H 176
AUTHOR: Glover (R)
TITLE: Driving Under the Influence
INTRODUCED: 02/05/2008
DISPOSITION: Failed - Adjourned
LOCATION: Senate Judiciary Committee
SUMMARY:
Relates to Alabama's DUI law; amends Section 32-5A-191 to provide for a mandatory sentence of at least double the minimum punishment for a person convicted of DUI who has .15 percent or more by weight of alcohol in his or her blood within four hours of operating or being in control of a motor vehicle; clarifies that any prior conviction, regardless of date and regardless of whether it was in-state or out-of-state, will count as a prior conviction.
   
*+AL SR 123
AUTHOR: Senate Rules Committee
TITLE: Special Order Calendar
INTRODUCED: 05/08/2008
DISPOSITION: Adopted
LOCATION: Adopted
SUMMARY:
Proposes a special order calendar.
   
*+AL H 70 a
AUTHOR: Hurst (D)
TITLE: Drivers Licenses
INTRODUCED: 05/28/2008
DISPOSITION: Failed - Adjourned
LOCATION: House Government Appropriations Committee
SUMMARY:
Relates to the suspension of the driver's license of an individual for certain drug or alcohol related violations; provides further for the suspension when the individual is ordered to enter an in-patient drug or alcohol rehabilitation facility or voluntarily enters a facility approved by the court.
   
*+AZ H 2090
AUTHOR: Biggs (R)
TITLE: Extreme Driving Under the Influence
INTRODUCED: 01/14/2008
DISPOSITION: Failed - Adjourned
LOCATION: House Commerce Committee
SUMMARY:
Concerns extreme DUI; concerns alcohol concentration results and sentencing.
   
*+AZ H 2095
AUTHOR: Biggs (R)
TITLE: Extreme Driving Under the Influence
INTRODUCED: 01/14/2008
DISPOSITION: Failed - Adjourned
LOCATION: House Transportation Committee
SUMMARY:
Concerns extreme DUI; relates to sentence.
   
*+AZ H 2207
AUTHOR: Farnsworth (R)
TITLE: Sentencing
INTRODUCED: 01/15/2008
LAST AMEND: 06/18/2008
DISPOSITION: Enacted
LOCATION: Chaptered
SUMMARY:
Concerns criminal procedure and sentencing of both adults and juveniles; relates to eligibility for diversion; offenses involving weapons, assault, sexual assault, chronic felony offenders, DUI offenses, adult and juvenile probation, adjudicated delinquents, deferred prosecution programs, modified sentencing for repeat offenders, preconviction custody, controlled substances, drug treatment and mental health treatment.
   
*+AZ H 2395
AUTHOR: Weiers Ji (R)
TITLE: Watercraft
INTRODUCED: 01/17/2008
LAST AMEND: 04/17/2008
DISPOSITION: Vetoed
LOCATION: Vetoed by Governor
SUMMARY:
Relates to watercraft registration and operations; provides that a watercraft operator involved in an accident shall stop and remain at the scene; provides that a watercraft operator that wilfully flees from a pursuant law enforcement officer is guilty of a felony; provides for fines, community restitution, drug or alcohol treatment, suspended sentencing, additional assessments, minors, ignition interlock, probationer status and drug or alcohol treatment before reissuance of driving privileges.
   
*+AZ H 2534
AUTHOR: Farnsworth (R)
TITLE: Driving While Intoxicated
INTRODUCED: 01/18/2008
DISPOSITION: Failed - Adjourned
LOCATION: House Rules Committee
SUMMARY:
Concerns driving while intoxicated; relates to homicide; relates to sentencing.
   
*+AZ H 2753
AUTHOR: Miranda B (D)
TITLE: Traffic Citations
INTRODUCED: 02/06/2008
LAST AMEND: 03/17/2008
DISPOSITION: Failed - Adjourned
LOCATION: Senate Transportation Committee
SUMMARY:
Concerns traffic citations; relates to payments; relates to reinstatement fees; relates to drivers license; provides full satisfaction of the civil penalty of the court shall notify the Department of the payment and within an amount of time shall notify the person in writing whether the driving privileges have been restored or the reasons why driving privileges are not subject to reinstatement.
   
*+AZ S 1005
AUTHOR: Waring (R)
TITLE: Home Detention for Driving Under the Influence
INTRODUCED: 01/14/2008
DISPOSITION: Failed - Adjourned
LOCATION: Senate Public Safety and Human Services Committee
SUMMARY:
Relates to home detention; concerns DUIs; relates to ineligibility.
   
*+AZ S 1008
AUTHOR: Waring (R)
TITLE: Right of Appeal
INTRODUCED: 01/14/2008
DISPOSITION: Failed - Adjourned
LOCATION: Senate Transportation Committee
SUMMARY:
Relates to the right of appeal; provides that the appellant in an action held in a justice of the peace court may appeal to the superior court from the final order of the justice of the peace court; provides that if a law enforcement officer has probably cause to believe the person caused a traffic accident resulting in death or serious injury and was under the influence of drugs or alcohol, the officer shall also serve an order of suspension of the person's drivers license.
   
*+AZ S 1033
AUTHOR: Waring (R)
TITLE: Driver License Revocation
INTRODUCED: 01/14/2008
LAST AMEND: 03/11/2008
DISPOSITION: Failed - Adjourned
LOCATION: House Government Committee
SUMMARY:
Concerns driving under the influence; relates to driver license revocation; prohibits issuance of a new driver license until completion of community restitution.
   
*+AZ S 1048
AUTHOR: Gray (R)
TITLE: Partial-birth Abortion
INTRODUCED: 01/14/2008
LAST AMEND: 06/16/2008
DISPOSITION: Vetoed
LOCATION: Vetoed by Governor
SUMMARY:
Imposes criminal penalties on a physician who performs a partial-birth abortion and thereby kills a human fetus; exempts a partial-birth abortion that is necessary to save the life of a mother whose life is endangered by a physical disorder, illness or injury, including a physical condition caused by or arising from the pregnancy itself; provides a civil cause of action for damages for physical and psychological injuries; allows a defendant to seek a hearing to determine whether the procedure was necessary.
   
*+AZ S 1080
AUTHOR: Gray (R)
TITLE: Boating Registration and Violations
INTRODUCED: 01/14/2008
LAST AMEND: 03/13/2008
DISPOSITION: Failed - Adjourned
LOCATION: House Government Committee
SUMMARY:
Concerns operating watercraft under the influence; relates to watercraft registration; concerns sentencing and restitution.
   
*+AZ S 1184
AUTHOR: Gray (R)
TITLE: Driving Under the Influence
INTRODUCED: 01/24/2008
LAST AMEND: 03/19/2008
DISPOSITION: Failed - Adjourned
LOCATION: House Government Committee
SUMMARY:
Concerns driving under the influence; relates to penalties; includes drivers license suspension; relates to required alcohol or other drug screening, education or treatment program; concerns blood alcohol levels.
   
*+AZ S 1231
AUTHOR: Gray (R)
TITLE: Drug Offense Reimbursement
INTRODUCED: 01/28/2008
LAST AMEND: 03/19/2008
DISPOSITION: Failed - Adjourned
LOCATION: House Judiciary Committee
SUMMARY:
Concerns reimbursement costs; relates to DUI; relates to drug offenses; provides the court shall order a person who is convicted of a violation to reimburse the political subdivision that is responsible for the costs that are associated with the person's conviction; provides reimbursement costs include the cost of the person's arrest and processing, all evidence storage and disposal costs, all laboratory fees and court costs related to the violation.
   
*+AZ S 1445
AUTHOR: Waring (R)
TITLE: Driver License Suspensions
INTRODUCED: 02/04/2008
DISPOSITION: Failed - Adjourned
LOCATION: Senate Transportation Committee
SUMMARY:
Concerns driver license suspensions; relates to incarceration.
   
+CA A 247
AUTHOR: Gaines (R)
COAUTHOR(S): Benoit (R), Maze (R), Spitzer (R), Maldonado (R), Harman (R), Dutton (R), Silva (R), Cox (R), Huff (R), Berryhill (R), Garrick (R), Jeffries (R)
TITLE: Minors: Fitness Hearing: Vehicular Manslaughter
INTRODUCED: 02/01/2007
LAST AMEND: 03/05/2007
DISPOSITION: Failed
LOCATION: ASSEMBLY
SUMMARY:
Amends law which enumerates specified crimes for which a minor 14 years of age or older may be prosecuted under the general law in a court of criminal jurisdiction. Adds both vehicular manslaughter while intoxicated, and vehicular manslaughter during the course of a speed contest, to those enumerated crimes. Corrects an obsolete cross-reference and makes other technical, nonsubstantive changes to the provisions of existing law.
   
+CA A 303
AUTHOR: Spitzer (R)
COAUTHOR(S): Parra (D), Maze (R), Runner S (R), Silva (R), Berryhill (R)
TITLE: Manslaughter: Vehicular
INTRODUCED: 02/09/2007
LAST AMEND: 03/15/2007
DISPOSITION: Failed
LOCATION: ASSEMBLY
SUMMARY:
Punishes vehicular manslaughter while intoxicated without gross negligence only by imprisonment in the state prison for specified periods. Includes gross vehicular manslaughter while intoxicated within the list of violent felonies contained in state law.
   
+CA A 1198
AUTHOR: Benoit (R)
TITLE: Vehicles: Driving Under the Influence: Penalties
INTRODUCED: 02/23/2007
LAST AMEND: 01/07/2008
DISPOSITION: Failed
LOCATION: ASSEMBLY
SUMMARY:
Requires a person convicted of driving under the influence to pay a fine of a specified amount to be submitted to the Office of Traffic Safety for deposit in of the Office of Traffic Safety Account. Authorizes the office to expend the funds to fund the office's existing Sobriety Checkpoint Mini-Grant Program for Local Law Enforcement Agencies, and to fund grants to provide public education programs regarding, and programs to prevent the violation of laws prohibiting driving under the influence.
   
+CA A 1215
AUTHOR: Benoit (R)
TITLE: Vehicles: DUI
INTRODUCED: 02/23/2007
LAST AMEND: 01/09/2008
DISPOSITION: Failed
LOCATION: ASSEMBLY
SUMMARY:
Prohibits, upon the adoption of regulations by the Department of Justice, a person who has a measurable amount of specified controlled substances without a prescription in his or her blood or urine from driving a vehicle or being in actual physical control of a vehicle on a highway or on a premises to which the public has access. Authorizes specified medical and laboratory personnel to withdraw blood for drug content upon police request.
   
+CA A 1385
AUTHOR: Garrick (R)
COAUTHOR(S): Spitzer (R), Runner S (R), Parra (D), Nakanishi (R), Maze (R), Gaines (R), Berryhill (R), Fuller (R)
TITLE: Vehicles: DUI Penalties
INTRODUCED: 02/23/2007
LAST AMEND: 02/14/2008
DISPOSITION: Pending
LOCATION: Senate Public Safety Committee
SUMMARY:
Provides that a person operating a motorized scooter while under the influence of an alcoholic beverage or a drug, upon conviction, is guilty of a misdemeanor. Subjects a person under the age of 21 years who is convicted of driving with a specified blood alcohol concentration to a fine enhancement. Provides that a person under the age of 21 years but 13 years of age or older, if convicted of driving with a specified blood alcohol concentration, would be subject to specified penalties.
   
+CA A 1416
AUTHOR: Runner S (R)
TITLE: Child Endangerment
INTRODUCED: 02/23/2007
DISPOSITION: Failed
LOCATION: ASSEMBLY
SUMMARY:
Makes it a misdemeanor punishable by imprisonment in a county jail or a felony punishable by imprisonment in state prison for a person to operate a motor vehicle in a manner that is a violation of a driving under the influence offense and a child is a passenger in that vehicle at the time of the violation.
   
+CA A 1657
AUTHOR: Runner S (R)
COAUTHOR(S): Torrico (D), Garcia (R), Horton (R), Maze (R), Spitzer (R), DeVore (R), Harman (R), Huff (R), Portantino (D), Benoit (R), Villines (R), Alquist (D), Runner G (R), Adams (R), Beall (D), Gaines (R)
TITLE: Alcoholic Beverages: Underage Drinking
INTRODUCED: 02/23/2007
LAST AMEND: 06/09/2008
DISPOSITION: Pending
LOCATION: Senate Public Safety Committee
SUMMARY:
Makes the act of providing an alcoholic beverage to a person who the provider knew, or reasonably should have known, was under the age of 21 years, and the person under the age of 21 years thereafter consumes the alcohol and thereby proximately causes great bodily injury or death to himself, herself, or any other person, and the provider knew, or reasonably should have known of that danger, punishable as either a misdemeanor or a felony.
   
*+CA A 2073
AUTHOR: Benoit (R)
TITLE: Drug and Alcohol-Related Offenses
INTRODUCED: 02/19/2008
LAST AMEND: 03/24/2008
DISPOSITION: Pending
LOCATION: Assembly Appropriations Committee
SUMMARY:
Imposes specified increased sanctions on a repeat offender operating a vessel or manipulating water skis, an aquaplane, or a similar device, while under the influence of an alcoholic beverage, a drug, or the combined influence of an alcoholic beverage and a drug, if the current offense occurs within a specified time period of the previous conviction. Prohibits a court from absolving a person if the conviction occurs within 10 years rather than 7 years.
   
*+CA A 2766
AUTHOR: Fuentes (D)
TITLE: Driving Under the Influence: Administrative Hearing
INTRODUCED: 02/22/2008
LAST AMEND: 04/07/2008
DISPOSITION: Pending
LOCATION: Assembly Public Safety Committee
SUMMARY:
Amends existing law that requires the Department of Motor Vehicles to notify the person that he or she has within 10 days of the receipt of the notice of the order of suspension or revocation to request a hearing to contest the order of suspension or revocation. Extends this period to request a hearing.
   
*+CA A 2784
AUTHOR: Feuer (D)
COAUTHOR(S): Galgiani (D), Carter (D), Wolk (D), Spitzer (R), Blakeslee (R), Portantino (D), Cox (R), DeSaulnier (D), Benoit (R)
TITLE: Vehicles: DUI: Ignition Interlock
INTRODUCED: 02/22/2008
LAST AMEND: 05/23/2008
DISPOSITION: Pending
FILE: 156
LOCATION: Senate Third Reading File
SUMMARY:
Requires the Department of Motor Vehicles to advise a person about a restricted driver's license after a specified period of license suspension or revocation for driving under the influence. Requires a person to pay license reissue fees and specified administrative fees. Prohibits the restriction on a person's driving privilege as to where the person is allowed to drive, if the person submits proof of the installation of an ignition interlock device, and pays a related administrative fee.
   
+CA S 177
AUTHOR: Migden (D)
COAUTHOR(S): Benoit (R), Horton (R), La Malfa (R), Maze (R), Nakanishi (R), Parra (D), Plescia (R), Runner S (R), Spitzer (R), Gaines (R), Galgiani (D), Blakeslee (R), Jeffries (R), DeVore (R), Emmerson (R), Strickland (R), Villines (R), Lieu (D), Adams (R), Cook (R), DeSaulnier (D), Duvall (R), Maldonado (R), Scott (D)
TITLE: Driver's License: DUI: Ignition Interlock
INTRODUCED: 02/05/2007
LAST AMEND: 04/09/2007
DISPOSITION: Failed
LOCATION: SENATE
SUMMARY:
Amends existing law that requires a person's privilege to operate a motor vehicle to be suspended or revoked for a specified period of time if the person has been convicted of driving under the influence. Increases the periods of suspensions or revocations and imposing ignition interlock device requirements on a person whose license is suspended or revoked or applies for and receives a restricted driver' s license. Establishes the Ignition Interlock Device Assistance Fund.
   
+CA S 476
AUTHOR: Hollingsworth (R)
TITLE: Crime
INTRODUCED: 02/22/2007
LAST AMEND: 03/26/2007
DISPOSITION: Failed
LOCATION: SENATE
SUMMARY:
Provides that prosecution for voluntary manslaughter, gross vehicular manslaughter while intoxicated, vehicular manslaughter while intoxicated, and vehicular manslaughter that occurred when the driver caused or participated in a collision for the purpose of false or fraudulent claim, for various crimes involving involuntary manslaughter and vehicular manslaughter shall commence within 10 years of the offense.
   
*+CA S 1190
AUTHOR: Oropeza (D)
TITLE: Certified Ignition Interlock Devices
INTRODUCED: 02/12/2008
LAST AMEND: 08/08/2008
DISPOSITION: To Governor
LOCATION: To enrollment
SUMMARY:
Lowers the minimum blood alcohol percentage at the time of a DUI arrest that allows a court to require the person to install a certified ignition interlock device on any vehicle that the persons owns or operates and prohibits that person from operating a vehicle without such a device. Authorizes the Department of Motor Vehicles to undertake a study regarding the overall effectiveness of the use of such devices to reduce recidivism of first time DUI violators.
   
*+CA S 1361
AUTHOR: Correa (D)
COAUTHOR(S): Spitzer (R), Torlakson (D)
TITLE: Vehicles: DUI: Ignition Interlock
INTRODUCED: 02/20/2008
LAST AMEND: 05/20/2008
DISPOSITION: To Governor
LOCATION: Enrolled
SUMMARY:
Requires the Department of Motor Vehicles to advise a person that he or she may apply for a restricted driver's licence after completion of a portion of the suspension period depending upon certain conditions. Prohibits the restriction on the person's driving privilege, with regard to where and when the person is allowed to drive, from applying where the person submits proof of installation of a certified ignition interlock device and agrees to maintain the device. Provides for related fees.
   
*+CA S 1388
AUTHOR: Torlakson (D)
COAUTHOR(S): Correa (D), Maldonado (R), Dutton (R)
TITLE: Vehicles: DUI: Ignition Interlock
INTRODUCED: 02/21/2008
LAST AMEND: 06/26/2008
DISPOSITION: To Governor
LOCATION: To enrollment
SUMMARY:
Requires a person to immediately install a certified ignition interlock device on all vehicles they own or operate for a certain period when they have been convicted of violating DUI provisions and driving a motor vehicle when their license has been suspended or revoked as a result of a DUI-related conviction. Provides the number of violations will determine the period of time the device will be required. Sets a scheme with which a person will be informed of the installment requirements and related fees.
   
*+CA S 1469
AUTHOR: Calderon R (D)
TITLE: Collateral Recovery: Tow Vehicles
INTRODUCED: 02/21/2008
LAST AMEND: 08/14/2008
DISPOSITION: Pending
FILE: 101
LOCATION: Senate Unfinished Business
SUMMARY:
Makes a tow vehicle used to violate the Collateral Recovery Act subject to removal and impound. Specifies that a licensee may have more than one qualified certificate holder in an office. Requires notice provided to a debtor after collateral recovery to include a disclosure regarding liability of the licensee for certain damages. Relates to taillamp, stoplamp, turn signal, and multisafety chain requirements applicable to towing vehicles. Imposes requirements on law enforcement agencies and impound lots.
   
*+CA S 1666
AUTHOR: Calderon R (D)
TITLE: Crime: School Zones
INTRODUCED: 02/22/2008
LAST AMEND: 07/01/2008
DISPOSITION: To Governor
LOCATION: Enrolled
SUMMARY:
Defines and expands the distance of Safe School Zones. Specifies the term school includes any public or private school. Amends existing law the prohibits certain suspended or dismissed students or employees and certain persons who have been directed to leave a school campus or facility, to apply these provisions to public and private schools. Specifies certain provisions regarding drug offenders who come into areas of a school campus being guilty of a public offense relate to public and private schools.
   
*+CA S 1779
AUTHOR: Senate Business, Professions & Economic Development Committee
TITLE: Professions and Vocations
INTRODUCED: 03/13/2008
LAST AMEND: 08/13/2008
DISPOSITION: Pending
FILE: 87
LOCATION: Senate Unfinished Business
SUMMARY:
Relates to the Cemetery and Funeral Bureau, professional liability insurance reporting, the Boards of Occupational Therapy, Podiatrics and Behavioral Sciences, the Acupuncture Board, physician and surgeon's training, occupational therapy, nurses, naturopathic medicine, the Respiratory Care Board, Pharmacy Law, veterinarians, psychologists, social workers, marriage and family therapists, interior designers, dangerous drugs or medical devices wholesalers, fiduciaries, appliance repair dealers and Medi-Cal.
   
*+CO H 1010
SPONSOR: McFadyen (D)
TITLE: Motor Vehicle Traffic Fines
INTRODUCED: 01/09/2008
LAST AMEND: 04/29/2008
DISPOSITION: Enacted
LOCATION: Chaptered
SUMMARY:
Raises the fines for certain traffic misdemeanors and other traffic infractions including, but not limited to, violations involving abandoning or dumping a motor vehicle, work zones, motorcycles, child restraints, licensure, persons with disabilities, emergency vehicles, young drivers, railroad crossings, and parking; reduces the portion of seat belt violation fines that are kept by a local jurisdiction in certain circumstances; doubles the minimum fine for DUI, DWAI, UDD, and habitual user driving.
   
*+CO H 1071
SPONSOR: Rose (R)
TITLE: Alcohol Related Driving Offense Notice
INTRODUCED: 01/09/2008
DISPOSITION: Failed - Adjourned
LOCATION: Postponed Indefinitely
SUMMARY:
Concerns notice on driver's licenses that a person has committed certain alcohol-related driving offenses.
   
*+CO H 1166
SPONSOR: Judd (D)
TITLE: Driving Under the Influence
INTRODUCED: 01/16/2008
LAST AMEND: 02/04/2008
DISPOSITION: Enacted
LOCATION: Chaptered
SUMMARY:
Repeals and reenacts, with amendments, the statute authorizing the Department of Revenue to revoke a person's driver's license due to the presence of alcohol or drugs in the person's system or the person's refusal to take a test to determine whether there is alcohol or drugs in the person's system.
   
*+CO H 1194
SPONSOR: Judd (D)
TITLE: Drunk Driving Penalties
INTRODUCED: 01/22/2008
LAST AMEND: 04/30/2008
DISPOSITION: Enacted
LOCATION: Chaptered
SUMMARY:
Concerns measures by executive branch agencies to reduce the incidents of drunk driving; provides for extending the length of suspension of driving privileges for certain offenders, requiring certain offenders to use an ignition interlock device, increasing the cost to reinstate a driver's license, and providing for an increase in annual high-visibility drunk driving law enforcement episodes; relates to appropriations for capital construction and expansion of correctional facilities.
   
*+CO H 1313
SPONSOR: King S (R)
TITLE: Aggravated Driving Under the Influence
INTRODUCED: 02/01/2008
DISPOSITION: Failed - Adjourned
LOCATION: Postponed Indefinitely
SUMMARY:
Concerns creation of the crime of aggravated driving under the influence for persons who have previously been convicted of an alcohol or drug related offense, and making an appropriation in connection therewith.
   
*+CO H 1377
SPONSOR: King S (R)
TITLE: Felony Eluding Bail
INTRODUCED: 03/24/2008
LAST AMEND: 04/07/2008
DISPOSITION: Enacted
LOCATION: Chaptered
SUMMARY:
Requires bail in a specified amount for a person charged with felony vehicular eluding and driving under the influence arising out of the same occurrence.
   
*+CO HCR 1013
SPONSOR: Gardner (R)
TITLE: Right to Bail
INTRODUCED: 04/22/2008
DISPOSITION: Failed - Adjourned
LOCATION: House State, Veterans and Military Affairs Committee
SUMMARY:
Submits to the registered electors of the state of Colorado an Amendment to Section 19 of Article II of the Constitution of the State of Colorado; denies the right to bail if the person has committed a serious felony offense or a serious offense involving driving under the influence of alcohol or drugs as determined by law and is in this country illegally if the proof is evident to the commission of the serious felony offenses.
   
*+CO S 31
SPONSOR: Shaffer (D)
TITLE: Criminal Offenses Involving Motor Vehicles
INTRODUCED: 01/09/2008
DISPOSITION: Failed - Adjourned
LOCATION: Postponed Indefinitely
SUMMARY:
Concerns criminal offenses involving motor vehicles.
   
*+CO S 76
SPONSOR: Renfroe (R)
TITLE: Driving Under the Influence Bail
INTRODUCED: 01/16/2008
LAST AMEND: 04/08/2008
DISPOSITION: Enacted
LOCATION: Chaptered
SUMMARY:
Authorizes a court to fix bail for a person charged with certain alcohol- or drug-related driving offenses even if the person is given a summons.
   
*+CO S 140
SPONSOR: Shaffer (D)
TITLE: Alcohol Drug Tests After Accidents
INTRODUCED: 02/01/2008
LAST AMEND: 04/15/2008
DISPOSITION: Failed - Adjourned
LOCATION: Postponed Indefinitely
SUMMARY:
Concerns toxicology tests following serious traffic accidents.
   
*+CO S 159
SPONSOR: Tupa (D)
TITLE: Boating Under the Influence
INTRODUCED: 02/12/2008
LAST AMEND: 03/31/2008
DISPOSITION: Enacted
LOCATION: Chaptered
SUMMARY:
Lowers the blood alcohol limit at which a person operating a vessel is deemed to be under the influence from a blood alcohol content of 0.10 to 0.08; extends the scope of the law relating to the operation of a vessel while under the influence of intoxicating substances from motorboats and sailboats to all vessels.
   
*+CT H 5032
INTRODUCER: Cafero (R)
TITLE: Intoxicated Vessel Operation
INTRODUCED: 02/06/2008
LAST AMEND: 03/27/2008
DISPOSITION: Failed - Adjourned
LOCATION: HOUSE
SUMMARY:
Concerns operation of a vessel while under the influence of intoxicating liquor or drug; implements the Governor's budget recommendations.
   
*+CT H 5043
INTRODUCER: Cafero (R)
TITLE: Teen Drivers
INTRODUCED: 02/06/2008
DISPOSITION: Failed
LOCATION: Died
SUMMARY:
Provides that no person under a specified age may transport more passengers than the number of safety belts permanently installed in the motor vehicle being operated; provides that operators and passengers must wear safety belts at all times while the vehicle is in operation on any highway; provides for penalties; establishes new criteria for learner's permits and behind the wheel instruction.
   
*+CT H 5100
INTRODUCER: Klarides (R)
TITLE: Drunk Driving Fines
INTRODUCED: 02/13/2008
DISPOSITION: Failed
LOCATION: Died
SUMMARY:
Increases the fine for drunk driving; increases the fines for driving under the influence in order to deter drinking and driving.
   
*+CT H 5101
INTRODUCER: Hovey (R)
TITLE: Driving Under the Influence
INTRODUCED: 02/13/2008
DISPOSITION: Failed
LOCATION: Died
SUMMARY:
Increases the fines for operating a motor vehicle while under the influence of intoxicating liquor or any drug, or both; increases the fines for driving under the influence and thereby help to deter drinking and driving.
   
*+CT H 5748
INTRODUCER: Joint Committee on Transportation
TITLE: Teenage Drivers
INTRODUCED: 02/27/2008
LAST AMEND: 04/10/2008
DISPOSITION: Enacted
LOCATION: Chaptered
SUMMARY:
Concerns teenage drivers; strengthens requirements for the issuance of an operators license for persons under the age of eighteen and to impose public safety restrictions on the operation of a motor vehicle; restricts passengers that teenage drivers may carry while being instructed under a learner's permit; relates to parents and legal guardians; regulates nighttime hours of driving; provides for mandatory license suspensions for certain violations; requires use of seat belts; relates to drunk driving.
   
*+CT H 5763
INTRODUCER: Joint Committee on General Law
TITLE: Wine with Restaurant Meals
INTRODUCED: 02/27/2008
DISPOSITION: Failed
LOCATION: Died
SUMMARY:
Concerns wine ordered with restaurant meals; allows restaurant owners and employees to stop intoxicated patrons from removing partially consumed bottles of wine from restaurant premises.
   
*+CT S 291
INTRODUCER: Joint Committee on Transportation
TITLE: Blood Alcohol Testing
INTRODUCED: 02/20/2008
DISPOSITION: Failed - Adjourned
LOCATION: Joint Committee on Transportation
SUMMARY:
Requires audio-visual recordings of persons being asked to submit to a blood alcohol content (bac) test and of the administration of such test; requires an audio-visual recording of a person being requested to undergo a blood alcohol content test and the performance of such test, and to require that such recording be made available to such person.
   
*+CT S 294
INTRODUCER: Joint Committee on Transportation
TITLE: Open Alcoholic Beverage Containers
INTRODUCED: 02/20/2008
LAST AMEND: 03/20/2008
DISPOSITION: Failed - Adjourned
LOCATION: Joint Committee on Judiciary
SUMMARY:
Prohibits open alcoholic beverage containers in motor vehicles; prohibits the possession of an open alcoholic beverage container in the passenger area of a motor vehicle while that motor vehicle is on any highway in this state.
   
*+CT S 296
INTRODUCER: Joint Committee on Transportation
TITLE: Driving Under the Influence
INTRODUCED: 02/20/2008
LAST AMEND: 03/20/2008
DISPOSITION: Failed - Adjourned
LOCATION: SENATE
SUMMARY:
Concerns the offense of driving under the influence and ignition interlock devices; increases the license suspension period for offenders with a first conviction for driving under the influence; to allow said offenders to apply for the installation of an ignition interlock device on their vehicles in lieu of serving the final twelve months of their suspension; to require that offenders with a first conviction for driving under the influence participate in a substance treatment program.
   
*+CT S 297
INTRODUCER: Joint Committee on Transportation
TITLE: Driving Under the Influence
INTRODUCED: 02/20/2008
LAST AMEND: 03/20/2008
DISPOSITION: Failed - Adjourned
LOCATION: SENATE
SUMMARY:
Concerns the Department of Motor Vehicles and administrative per se procedures and violations; strengthens and clarifies the DUI administrative per se provisions of the Department of Motor Vehicles; provides a person will not operate a motor vehicle while under the influence of alcohol or drugs or both; provides a person commits such offense when blood alcohol ratios are at a certain level; provides a certain ration for a person operating a commercial motor vehicle; provides for subsequent offenses.
   
*+CT S 298
INTRODUCER: Joint Committee on Transportation
TITLE: Department of Motor Vehicles
INTRODUCED: 02/20/2008
LAST AMEND: 05/01/2008
DISPOSITION: Enacted
LOCATION: Chaptered
SUMMARY:
Amends Department of Motor Vehicles provisions regarding camping trailer registration, maintenance vehicles, motorcycles, serious traffic violations, students, emergency vehicles, motor vehicle restricted records and penalties for violations;,antique and unregistered vehicles, public access to the International Registration Plan, additional safety registration fees, vehicle recycler's license, video display units, emissions inspections, electronic verification of vehicle insurance, titles and dealers.
   
*+CT S 500
INTRODUCER: Joint Committee on Transportation
TITLE: Highway Work Zone Safety
INTRODUCED: 02/27/2008
LAST AMEND: 04/21/2008
DISPOSITION: Failed - Adjourned
LOCATION: SENATE
SUMMARY:
Concerns highway work zone safety; creates a Highway Work Zone Safety Advisory Council to protect highway workers in work zones and to establish the offenses of endangerment of a highway worker and aggravated endangerment of a highway worker.
   
*+CT S 502
INTRODUCER: Joint Committee on Transportation
TITLE: Ignition Interlock Device
INTRODUCED: 02/27/2008
LAST AMEND: 03/27/2008
DISPOSITION: Failed - Adjourned
LOCATION: Joint Committee on Appropriations
SUMMARY:
Concerns revisions to the driving under the influence and ignition interlock device statutes; makes revisions to the provisions of the general statutes concerning operating a motor vehicle under the influence of alcohol or drugs and ignition interlock devices for motor vehicles.
   
*+CT S 540
INTRODUCER: Joint Committee on Public Safety and Security
TITLE: Moving Motor Vehicle Violations
INTRODUCED: 02/28/2008
LAST AMEND: 03/20/2008
DISPOSITION: Failed - Adjourned
LOCATION: HOUSE
SUMMARY:
Doubles the fines for moving motor vehicle violations occurring in emergency response areas; doubles the fine for moving motor vehicle violations that occur in emergency response areas.
   
*+CT S 1700 a
INTRODUCER: Williams (D)
TITLE: Criminal Justice Reform
INTRODUCED: 01/22/2008
DISPOSITION: Enacted
LOCATION: Chaptered
SUMMARY:
Relates to an act concerning criminal justice reform; concerns home invasion; expands the definition; amends provisions relating to parole hearings, burglary with a firearm and criminal justice commissions.
   
+DE H 20
PRIMARY SPONSOR: Wagner (R)
TITLE: Rules Of The Road
INTRODUCED: 01/24/2007
DISPOSITION: Pending
LOCATION: Senate Executive Committee
SUMMARY:
Bans open containers of alcoholic beverages in motor vehicles and provides a civil penalty for an offense that is not entered on a driver's record.
   
*+DE H 398
PRIMARY SPONSOR: Spence (R)
TITLE: Alcoholic Liquor
INTRODUCED: 05/01/2008
LAST AMEND: 06/12/2008
DISPOSITION: Pending
LOCATION: Senate Finance Committee
SUMMARY:
Ensures that underage persons who attempt to purchase or possess alcohol will have their driving privileges suspended, even if the underage person is granted Probation Before Judgment by the court. This Bill was a recommendation by the Alcohol Awareness Task Force ( (17).
   
*+DE S 292
PRIMARY SPONSOR: Henry (D)
TITLE: Out of Service Orders
INTRODUCED: 06/10/2008
LAST AMEND: 06/17/2008
DISPOSITION: Enacted
LOCATION: Chaptered
SUMMARY:
Increases minimum disqualification periods and minimum civil fines for commercial driver license holders convicted of violating an out-of-service order for a first and second conviction within a ten-year period; provides that employers convicted of violating an out-of-service order shall be fined a specified amount.
   
+FL H 73
COMPARE: FL H 107, FL H 159, FL H 821, FL S 388, FL S 424, FL S 624
AUTHOR: Brown (R)
COAUTHOR(S): Harrell (R), Hooper (R), Schenck (R), Nehr (R)
TITLE: Illegal Immigration
INTRODUCED: 03/04/2008
DISPOSITION: Failed
LOCATION: Died
SUMMARY:
Prohibits restrictions on reporting of immigration status information by public employees; prohibits local government restrictions concerning immigration law enforcement; requires verification of immigration status of perso