legislation: 107-hr-4976
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| 107-hr-4976 | 107 | hr | 4976 | Burton Greene Higher-Risk Impaired Driver Act | Transportation and Public Works | 2002-06-20 | 2002-07-21 | Referred to the Subcommittee on Highways and Transit. | House | Rep. Lowey, Nita M. [D-NY-18] | NY | D | L000480 | 3 | Burton Greene Higher-Risk Impaired Driver Act - Requires the Secretary of Transportation, beginning on October 1, 2006, to transfer two percent of a State's Federal-aid highway funds to that State's apportionment solely for impaired driving programs if the State has not enacted or is not enforcing a higher risk impaired driver law.Defines such a law as one that provides certain minimum penalties for: (1) a second or subsequent offense of driving while intoxicated (DWI) or driving under the influence (DUI) within a minimum of five consecutive years, of DWI or DUI with a blood alcohol concentration of .15 percent or greater, or of driving-while-suspended if the suspension was the result of a DUI conviction; or (2) refusing a blood alcohol concentration test while under arrest or investigation for involvement in a fatal or serious injury crash.Includes among such penalties: (1) driver's license suspension; (2) motor vehicle impoundment or immobilization; (3) assessment by a certified substance abuse official and assignment to treatment; (4) imprisonment, attachment of an electronic monitoring device, or assignment to a DUI/DWI specialty facility; (5) a $1,000 fine; (6) required restitution; (7) probation; and (8) required attendance of a treatment program and a victim impact panel. | 2025-08-19T17:28:31Z | https://www.congress.gov/bill/107th-congress/house-bill/4976 |