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Abstract: 

Each installment of Legislative Update summarizes, by state, the main provisions of laws targeting aggressive, distracted, and impaired driving. This issue’s Update, which reports on an unusually active period, covers laws that were enacted or introduced in Spring and early Summer of 2016. Among the notable developments were an Arizona house bill that would ensure that any law the state might subsequently enact legalizing marijuana use would not affect the state’s ability to enforce existing DUI laws; a Colorado law that would require courts to collect fees from DUI offenders in order to cover the cost of chemical testing; a law in Hawaii requiring slow-moving drivers in the passing lane to move right (“vehicular lollygagging”); a New Jersey law adding questions about distracted driving to the state’s drivers license exam; and an Oklahoma statute that would automatically classify as a felony any DUI conviction arising from a crash that resulted in serious bodily injury.

Keywords: Minimum Penalties for Repeat DWI/DUI; license revocation; marijuana use and driving; electronic monitoring; vehicular lollygagging; IID-limited driving permit; ignition interlock user fee; digitized driver’s license; sample testing; DUI Modernizati

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