REPORT TITLE:
Mandatory Administrative
Revocation


DESCRIPTION:
Amends the statutes relating to administrative revocation of
drivers licenses for drunk drivers to make the revocation
mandatory instead of discretionary, and to increase the period of
revocation.

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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THE SENATE                              S.B. NO.           
TWENTIETH LEGISLATURE, 2000                                
STATE OF HAWAII                                            
                                                             
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                   A  BILL  FOR  AN  ACT

RELATING TO DRIVERS.


BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:

 1      SECTION 1.  Section 286-261, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is
 
 2 amended by amending subsections (b) and (c) to read as follows:
 
 3      "(b)  The periods of administrative revocation that [may]
 
 4 shall be imposed under this part are as follows:
 
 5      (1)  Three months, if the arrestee's driving record shows no
 
 6           prior alcohol enforcement contacts during the five
 
 7           years preceding the date of arrest;
 
 8      (2)  [One year] Two years if the arrestee's driving record
 
 9           shows one prior alcohol enforcement contact during the
 
10           five years preceding the date of arrest;
 
11      (3)  [Two years] Four years if the arrestee's driving record
 
12           shows two prior alcohol enforcement contacts during the
 
13           seven years preceding the date of arrest;
 
14      (4)  For life if the arrestee's driving record shows three
 
15           or more prior alcohol enforcement contacts during the
 
16           ten years preceding the date of arrest; or
 
17      (5)  For arrestees under the age of eighteen years, the
 
18           period remaining until the arrestee's eighteenth
 
19           birthday, or for the appropriate revocation period
 
20           provided in paragraphs (1) to (4) or in subsection (c),
 

 
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 1           whichever is longer.
 
 2      (c)  The license of an arrestee who refuses to be tested
 
 3 after being informed of the sanctions of this part shall be
 
 4 revoked under subsection (b)(1), (2), and (3) for a period of one
 
 5 year, [two] four years, and [four] eight years, respectively."
 
 6      SECTION 2.  Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed.
 
 7 New statutory material is underscored.
 
 8      SECTION 3.  This Act shall take effect upon its approval.
 
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10                           INTRODUCED BY:_________________________