PRINTER'S NO. 832

THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA

HOUSE BILL

No. 705 Session of 2003

        INTRODUCED BY MELIO, BEBKO-JONES, CASORIO, CORRIGAN, COSTA,
           CRUZ, GERGELY, HORSEY, LEWIS, RAYMOND, SAINATO, TANGRETTI,
           WOJNAROSKI, COY, DONATUCCI, HARHAI, LESCOVITZ, PISTELLA,
           READSHAW, SATHER AND THOMAS, MARCH 6, 2003

        REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON TRANSPORTATION, MARCH 6, 2003

                                     AN ACT

     1  Amending Title 75 (Vehicles) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated
     2     Statutes, further providing for driving while operating
     3     privilege is suspended or revoked.

     4     The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
     5  hereby enacts as follows:
     6     Section 1.  Section 1543(a) and (b)(1) of Title 75 of the
     7  Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes, amended October 4, 2002
     8  (P.L.845, No.123), are amended to read:
     9  § 1543.  Driving while operating privilege is suspended or
    10             revoked.
    11     (a)  Offense defined.--Except as provided in subsection (b),
    12  any person who drives a motor vehicle on any highway or
    13  trafficway of this Commonwealth after the commencement of a
    14  suspension, revocation or cancellation of the operating
    15  privilege and before the operating privilege has been restored
    16  is guilty of a [summary offense] misdemeanor of the third degree
    17  and shall, upon conviction, be sentenced to pay a fine of [$200]

     1  $1,000.
     2     (b)  Certain offenses.--
     3         (1)  A person who drives a motor vehicle on a highway or
     4     trafficway of this Commonwealth at a time when the person's
     5     operating privilege is suspended or revoked as a condition of
     6     acceptance of Accelerated Rehabilitative Disposition for a
     7     violation of section 3731 (relating to driving under
     8     influence of alcohol or controlled substance) or because of a
     9     violation of section 1547(b)(1) (relating to suspension for
    10     refusal) or 3731 or is suspended under section 1581 (relating
    11     to Driver's License Compact) for an offense substantially
    12     similar to a violation of section 3731 shall, upon
    13     conviction, be guilty of a [summary offense] misdemeanor of
    14     the third degree and shall be sentenced to pay a fine of
    15     [$1,000] $2,000 and to undergo imprisonment for a period of
    16     not less than 90 days.
    17         * * *
    18     Section 2.  This act shall take effect immediately.








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