SF 1548 Summary

• Requires ignition interlock devices for DWI repeat offenders, offenders with alcohol concentration twice the legal limit or higher, and criminal vehicular homicide offenders before driving privileges can be reinstated.

• Establishes minimum interlock compliance periods: one year for repeat offenders or high alcohol concentration; two years for certain repeat offenders with high alcohol concentration; three to six years for multiple prior incidents depending on severity.

• Applies ignition interlock requirements to criminal vehicular operation offenses resulting in bodily harm, substantial bodily harm, or great bodily harm.

• Increases penalties for program violations: extends revocation by 180 days for first violation, one year for second violation, and 545 days for third and subsequent violations.

• Makes tampering with, circumventing, or bypassing an ignition interlock device a gross misdemeanor, as well as lending or renting a vehicle to someone required to use an interlock without the device installed.

• All provisions effective August 1, 2015, for offenses committed on or after that date.