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House Co-Sponsorship Memoranda
House of Representatives
Session of 2015 - 2016
Regular Session
MEMORANDUM
| Posted: | June 26, 2015 02:53 PM |
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| From: | Representative Thomas R. Caltagirone |
| To: | All House members |
| Subject: | Habitual DUI Offender Registry |
| In the near future, I plan to introduce legislation that creates the Pennsylvania Habitual DUI Offender Registry. My bill is modeled after the Ohio Habitual DUI Offender Registry. The bill will require individuals convicted of five (5) or more DUI’s or operating watercraft under the influence in the preceding 20 years to be included on a registry. The registry is to be established by the Department of Transportation. The registry will be on the Departments’ publically accessible website and shall include the habitual offenders name, date of birth, residence and employment address, number of DUI convictions, and the date and location of each DUI convictions. The registry will be searchable by the offenders name, county and zip code. The bill also requires the Court that convicts the habitual offender of the fifth or subsequent DUI to submit the information to the Department within 30 days of the conviction. The database is to be updated monthly. I am introducing this bill because of a heartbreaking story out of Luzerne County where Paula M. Jones, a 31 year old mother, was murdered on a Sunday afternoon by a drunk driver and left for dead alongside the road. Paula was training for an Ironman triathlon and running along Harveys Lake Drive at about 6:10 p.m. when she was struck by Michael Scavone. Scavone, is a 50-year-old man who according to court records had previously been charged with five DUI’s and another for operating a boat at a high rate of speed with a blood alcohol level of 0.158. What’s more, Scavone left the scene of the crime and when found by police admitted that he operated the vehicle used in the hit-and-run and had been drinking all day, he was quoted as saying he “struck something” on the way home and he was “lucky he had made it home.” Scavone’s blood was drawn two hours after the hit-and-run and his blood alcohol level was still 0.214. Unfortunately, for Paula’s family and her 14 year old daughter Kyla, she never made it home. I hope you will join me in honoring Paula’s life by supporting this legislation. |
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Introduced as HB1441