Bill Text: CA SB61 | 2015-2016 | Regular Session | Chaptered

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Bill Title: Driving under the influence: ignition interlock device.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 10-6)

Status: (Passed) 2015-09-28 - Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 350, Statutes of 2015. [SB61 Detail]

Download: California-2015-SB61-Chaptered.html

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BILL NUMBER: SB 61	CHAPTERED
	BILL TEXT

	CHAPTER  350
	FILED WITH SECRETARY OF STATE  SEPTEMBER 28, 2015
	APPROVED BY GOVERNOR  SEPTEMBER 28, 2015
	PASSED THE SENATE  JUNE 1, 2015
	PASSED THE ASSEMBLY  AUGUST 31, 2015
	AMENDED IN SENATE  APRIL 7, 2015
	AMENDED IN SENATE  MARCH 11, 2015

INTRODUCED BY   Senator Hill
   (Coauthors: Senators Hertzberg, Leyva, and Vidak)
   (Coauthors: Assembly Members Bonilla, Cooley, Eduardo Garcia,
Lackey, Levine, Lopez, Maienschein, Patterson, Rodriguez, Steinorth,
Wagner, and Waldron)

                        DECEMBER 29, 2014

   An act to repeal and add Section 23702 of the Vehicle Code,
relating to ignition interlock devices.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 61, Hill. Driving under the influence: ignition interlock
device.
   Existing law requires the Department of Motor Vehicles to
immediately suspend a person's privilege to operate a motor vehicle
for a specified period of time if the person has driven a motor
vehicle when the person had a certain blood-alcohol concentration.
Existing law authorizes certain individuals, whose privilege is
suspended pursuant to that provision to receive a restricted driver's
license if specified requirements are met, including the completion
of specified periods of license suspension or revocation.
   Existing law also requires the department to immediately suspend
or revoke a person's privilege to operate a motor vehicle if the
person has been convicted of violating specified provisions
prohibiting driving a motor vehicle under the influence of an
alcoholic beverage or drug or the combined influence of an alcoholic
beverage and drug, or with 0.08% or more, by weight, of alcohol in
his or her blood or while addicted to the use of any drug, with or
without bodily injury to another. Existing law authorizes certain
individuals whose privilege is suspended or revoked pursuant to that
provision to receive a restricted driver's license if specified
requirements are met, including the completion of specified periods
of license suspension or revocation and, in some instances, the
installation of an ignition interlock device on the person's vehicle.
Existing law does not permit a person who has been convicted of a
first offense of driving a motor vehicle under the influence, with
injury, to receive a restricted driver's license.
   Existing law also requires the Department of Motor Vehicles to
establish a pilot program from July 1, 2010, to January 1, 2016,
inclusive, in the Counties of Alameda, Los Angeles, Sacramento, and
Tulare that requires, as a condition of being issued a restricted
driver's license, being reissued a driver's license, or having the
privilege to operate a motor vehicle reinstated subsequent to a
conviction for any violation of the above offenses, a person to
install for a specified period of time an ignition interlock device
on all vehicles he or she owns or operates.
   This bill would extend the operation of that pilot program until
July 1, 2017. This bill would make these provisions relating to the
pilot program inoperative on July 1, 2017, and would repeal them as
of January 1, 2018.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  SECTION 1.  Section 23702 of the Vehicle Code is repealed.
  SEC. 2.  Section 23702 is added to the Vehicle Code, to read:
   23702.  This chapter shall become inoperative on July 1, 2017,
and, as of January 1, 2018, is repealed, unless a later enacted
statute, that becomes operative on or before January 1, 2018, deletes
or extends the dates on which it becomes inoperative and is
repealed.