[Congressional Bills 108th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1745 Introduced in House (IH)]






108th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1745

   To express the sense of the Congress that funding should be made 
 available from the Highway Trust Fund to encourage States to require 
  law enforcement officers to impound motor vehicles of those charged 
        with driving while intoxicated, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             April 10, 2003

 Mr. LoBiondo introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
             Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure

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                                 A BILL


 
   To express the sense of the Congress that funding should be made 
 available from the Highway Trust Fund to encourage States to require 
  law enforcement officers to impound motor vehicles of those charged 
        with driving while intoxicated, and for other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SENSE OF CONGRESS.

    It is the sense of Congress that funding should be made available 
from the Highway Trust Fund to encourage States to require law 
enforcement officers to impound motor vehicles of individuals charged 
with operating a motor vehicle while intoxicated and to issue 
responsibility warnings to individuals who take custody of suspects of 
driving while intoxicated.

SEC. 2. NTSB STUDY AND REPORT.

    (a) Study.--The National Transportation Safety Board shall conduct 
a study on--
            (1) the number of States that have adopted laws to impound 
        the motor vehicles of individuals charged with driving while 
        intoxicated; and
            (2) the number and severity of traffic accidents caused by 
        individuals who were released by State and local police hours 
        after being charged with driving while intoxicated.
    (b) Report.--Not later than 1 year after the date of enactment of 
this Act, the Board shall transmit to Congress a report on the results 
of the study, together with recommendations on the need for States to 
enact vehicle impoundment laws for those charged with driving while 
intoxicated and the effectiveness of such laws in States which have 
already enacted such laws.
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