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ID H0461

Bill

Status

Passed

3/26/2014

Primary Sponsor

Judiciary, Rules and Administration Committee

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Origin

House of Representatives

2014 Regular Session

AI Summary

  • Establishes the "Idaho 24/7 Sobriety and Drug Monitoring Program Act" to reduce impaired driving and repeat offenders through twice-daily testing or continuous alcohol monitoring as a condition of bond, probation, parole, or sentence.

  • Creates the Sobriety and Drug Monitoring Program within the Attorney General's office, which must be evidence-based and use testing methodologies that enable immediate sanctions for noncompliance at affordable costs.

  • Authorizes courts, parole boards, probation departments, and other specified entities to require program participation and condition sanctions on successful completion.

  • Grants the Attorney General authority to adopt rules establishing testing procedures, reasonable participant and testing fees, local account requirements, vendor contract approvals, and data management technology standards.

  • Requires law enforcement agencies to collect testing fees and deposit them into local 24/7 program accounts for distribution and use according to Attorney General rules and law enforcement agency terms.

Legislative Description

Adds to existing law to create the Sobriety and Drug Monitoring Program, to provide for rules and testing fees, to provide the authority for courts or other entities to participate in the Sobriety and Drug Monitoring Program and to provide for collection, distribution and use of testing fees.

SOBRIETY AND DRUG MONITORING PROGRAM

Last Action

Reported Signed by Governor on March 26, 2014 Session Law Chapter 240 Effective: 07/01/2014

3/26/2014

Full Bill Text

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