HB 1659 Summary

• Creates the "Cassandra Jade Law" requiring persons involved in motor vehicle accidents resulting in immediate death to submit to blood or breath tests for alcohol and blood, saliva, or urine tests for other intoxicating substances.

• Expands implied consent to testing by deeming any motor vehicle operator on Oklahoma roads to have consented to alcohol and drug testing if arrested for DUI-related offenses or involved in fatal/serious injury accidents.

• Allows unconscious or incapacitated persons to be tested without explicit consent, with arresting officers required to leave a citation with the arrested person's effects or hand it to them directly.

• Permits arrested persons to request additional testing at their own expense and authorizes law enforcement agencies to designate which tests (breath, blood, saliva, or urine) are administered.

• Requires the Department of Public Safety to revoke driver licenses and nonresident operating privileges for persons who refuse testing in fatal accident cases, with results admissible at trial.

• Effective November 1, 2015.