Kentucky Senate Bill 141 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: Introduced on February 9 2011 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2011-02-11 - to Judiciary (S)
Pending: Senate Judiciary Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Draft #1) [MS Word]

Amend KRS 189A.005 to expand the definition of "ignition interlock device"; amend KRS 189A.010 to include driving the wrong way on a four-lane highway among the list of factors for triggering aggravated DUI penalties; amend KRS 189A.070 to provide that a reduction in the time period of a license revocation does not lessen the time required for ignition interlock usage; amend KRS 189A.085 to run the period of a license plate impoundment from the date of sentencing to the day the offender is authorized to resume driving and require ignition interlock usage beginning with the first DUI offense; amend KRS 189A.340 to establish an assistance fund for indigent defendants; amend 189A.345 to establish penalties for operating a vehicle without a device when prohibited from doing so; create new sections of KRS Chapter 189A to establish the ignition interlock program, require the promulgation of administrative regulations, and allow a defendant who committed an offense prior to the effective date to elect to be governed by the Act; amend KRS 189A.410 to require ignition interlock usage while an offender is driving on a hardship license amend 186.572 to provide that penalty points assessed against a person's license shall expire only after participation in the interlock ignition program; amend 189A.090 to conform.

AN ACT relating to driving under the influence and making an appropriation therefor.

Sen. Ray Jones [D]

Date	Chamber	Action
2011-02-11		to Judiciary (S)
2011-02-09		introduced in Senate

Type	Source
Summary	http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/SB141.htm
Text	http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/SB141/bill.doc