DRUNKEN DRIVING

Bills and resolutions

Alcohol Responsibility Month: support goals and ideals (see H. Res. 305), H3256 [10AP]

Dept. of Transportation: condition Federal highway funding to States on enactment and enforcement of laws charging individuals who drive a motor vehicle, with a child passenger, while intoxicated or impaired (see H.R. 3008), H4164 [23MY]

——— condition receipt of certain highway funding by States on the enactment and enforcement of laws to prevent repeated intoxicated driving (see H.R. 2998), H4163 [23MY]

——— conduct study on motor vehicle safety and impaired driving (see H.R. 3888), H7240 [23JY]

——— establish a pilot program on drugged driving prevention (see H.R. 3159), H4349 [6JN]

——— improve safety of individuals by taking measures to end drunken driving (see H.R. 3011), H4164 [23MY]

——— prescribe safety standards requiring motor vehicles to be equipped with an advanced alcohol detection device to prevent intoxicated driving and provide for fleet demonstration of such devices (see H.R. 4354), H7753 [17SE]

——— provide funding to address motor vehicle safety and impaired driving (see H.R. 3890), H7240 [23JY]

——— require new vehicles to be equipped with ignition interlock devices to prevent intoxicated driving (see H.R. 514), H518 [11JA]

——— work with vehicle manufacturers, suppliers, and others to advance alcohol detection devices, mandate installation of such devices in new vehicles, and provide for fleet demonstration program (see S. 2604), S5841 [16OC]

Law enforcement: harmonize law enforcement reporting of driving under the influence arrests in order to provide the latest data at the time of traffic stops (see H.R. 1914), H2884 [27MR]

Remarks in House

Dept. of Transportation: require new vehicles to be equipped with ignition interlock devices to prevent intoxicated driving (H.R. 514), H366, H450 [10JA]

Law enforcement: harmonize law enforcement reporting of driving under the influence arrests in order to provide the latest data at the time of traffic stops (H.R. 1914), E357 [27MR]

Remarks in Senate

Dept. of Transportation: work with vehicle manufacturers, suppliers, and others to advance alcohol detection devices, mandate installation of such devices in new vehicles, and provide for fleet demonstration program (S. 2604), S5846 [16OC]

Texts of

S. 2604, Reduce Impaired Driving for Everyone (RIDE) Act, S5846 [16OC]