Arizona Senate Bill 1054 seeks to make DUI testing mandatory in all collisions resulting in serious injury or death, where probable cause exists to believe the person caused the accident or where a person is cited for a wide variety of traffic violations.
Refusal to submit to DUI testing under those conditions would be punishable by a one-year license suspension for a first refusal, and a two-year license suspension for any subsequent refusal within seven years. A person who is unconscious or otherwise incapable of refusing would be deemed not to have “withdrawn consent” and the tests would be automatically administered.
SB1054 has been approved in panel and now advances to the full Senate chamber for consideration.
For more information, see the abc15.com article, or read the text of and follow SB1054 at the azleg.gov link below:
http://www.abc15.com/news/state/bill-requiring-dui-testing-in-serious-crashes-advances-in-arizona
https://apps.azleg.gov/BillStatus/BillOverview
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