HB 1517 Summary

• Changes conditions for granting hardship restricted driving licenses by requiring installation of functioning certified ignition interlock devices in vehicles a person expects to operate.

• Allows courts to grant probationary driving privileges to persons under 21 with certain blood alcohol concentrations and to persons convicted of operating a motorboat while intoxicated, restricted to operating only vehicles with ignition interlock devices.

• Creates the ignition interlock assistance fund administered by the Bureau of Motor Vehicles, funded by $20 monthly user fees collected by ignition interlock vendors, to assist indigent persons with device expenses.

• Provides that ignition interlock restrictions remain in effect until the BMV receives notification from the vendor certifying no violations occurred in the four consecutive months prior to expiration.

• Modifies suspension notice requirements for persons whose driving privileges are suspended for refusing a chemical test, informing them of the right to apply for an ignition interlock probationary license (which waives the right to judicial review).

• Effective July 1, 2013.