PRINTER'S NO. 1450
No. 1042 Session of 2006
INTRODUCED BY PIPPY, RAFFERTY, COSTA, ERICKSON, O'PAKE, WENGER,
PICCOLA AND REGOLA, JANUARY 19, 2006
REFERRED TO TRANSPORTATION, JANUARY 19, 2006
AN ACT
1 Amending Title 75 (Vehicles) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated
2 Statutes, providing for mandatory testing for alcohol and
3 drugs in certain cases.
4 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
5 hereby enacts as follows:
6 Section 1. Title 75 of the Pennsylvania Consolidated
7 Statutes is amended by adding a section to read:
8 § 3802.1. Presumption of impairment.
9 Absence evidence to the contrary, whenever a motor vehicle
10 accident occurs resulting in a death or a life-threatening
11 injury, the driver of any such vehicle shall be required to
12 submit to testing to determine whether he has alcohol or another
13 impairing substance in his system.
14 Section 2. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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