Bill Text: PA SB1183 | 2009-2010 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: In driving after imbibing alcohol or utilizing drugs, further providing for prior offenses.

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2010-01-08 - Referred to TRANSPORTATION [SB1183 Detail]

Download: Pennsylvania-2009-SB1183-Introduced.html

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PRINTER'S NO. 1594
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
SENATE BILL
No. 1183 Session of2010
INTRODUCED BY WAUGH, ALLOWAY, BOSCOLA, ERICKSON, FONTANA, LOGAN, MUSTO, ORIE, RAFFERTY, TARTAGLIONE AND WARD, JANUARY 8, 2010
REFERRED TO TRANSPORTATION, JANUARY 8, 2010
AN ACT
Amending Title 75 (Vehicles) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated
Statutes, in driving after imbibing alcohol or utilizing
drugs, further providing for prior offenses.
The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
hereby enacts as follows:
Section 1. Section 3806(b) of Title 75 of the Pennsylvania
Consolidated Statutes is amended to read:
§ 3806. Prior offenses.
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(b) Repeat offenses within ten years.--The calculation of
prior offenses for purposes of sections 1553(d.2) (relating to
occupational limited license), 3803 (relating to grading) and
3804 (relating to penalties) shall include any conviction,
adjudication of delinquency, juvenile consent decree, acceptance
of Accelerated Rehabilitative Disposition or other form of
preliminary disposition within the ten years before the [present
violation occurred] sentencing on the present violation for any
of the following:
(1) an offense under section 3802;
(2) an offense under former section 3731;
(3) an offense substantially similar to an offense under
paragraph (1) or (2) in another jurisdiction; or
(4) any combination of the offenses set forth in
paragraph (1), (2) or (3).
Section 2. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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