Did not become law. It stopped in the Senate's Judiciary Committee on March 25, 2019. The 2019 session has ended.
2019 Regular Session
Senate Bill 1054
AN ACT CONCERNING DRIVING WHILE INTOXICATED.
What it does
The synopsis the General Assembly published with the bill.
To (1) establish the offenses of smoking or otherwise inhaling or ingesting a cannabis-type substance while operating a motor vehicle and smoking a cannabis-type substance as a passenger in a motor vehicle as class C misdemeanors, (2) provide immunity to certain persons withdrawing blood for a blood alcohol test, (3) provide that the Commissioner of Motor Vehicles may suspend driving privileges of and require the use of an ignition interlock device by a surviving operator of a motor vehicle who has an elevated blood alcohol content based on a blood, breath or urine sample of such operator involved in an accident resulting in the serious physical injury or death of a person, and (4) clarify and improve the effectiveness of the statutes prohibiting the operation of a motor vehicle under the influence of alcohol or drugs.
Sponsors
Who carried the bill in each chamber, and who signed on. Each name leads to the member's page.
In the Senate
Sponsor
Its course
March 8 to March 25, 2019, on one scale. In the top row each mark is a day something happened; taller marks are busier days.
Each committee stop sits inside its chamber.
Every action2 actions on 2 days
In the SenateMar 8 to Mar 25 · stopped17 days
Judiciary CommitteeMar 8 to Mar 25 · stopped17 days
Text
Each version as the General Assembly printed it.
l9n doesn't hold this bill's text yet.
What happened
In l9n's words, one line for each step. Every action as the General Assembly published it is below.
In the Senate Mar 8 – Mar 25
- Mar 8Introduced and sent to Judiciary Committee
- Mar 25Heard in Judiciary Committee
All 2 actions, as published
- Mar 8REF. TO JOINT COMM. ONBoth houses
- Mar 25PUBLIC HEARINGBoth houses