DUI bill passes with help from speaker
Friday, April 25th, 2008UPDATE June 7, 2008: HB2643 passed and signed. Score one for Napalitano. So the interlock stays at a year.
UPDATE April 30, 2008: The governor vetoed the bill, citing the interlock compromise as untenable. Liquor industy lobbyiests allowed House Speaker Jim Weiers to allow the bill to go forth because is contained the interlock reduction. There were perfectly good bills — being blocked — that would have given use perfectly sensible reform, e.g. the fix for conflicting penalties for extreme DUI.
In an unusual stroke of consistency, a bunch of competing DUI changes were rolled up and passed. (more…)