Rep. Steve Waldrip (R)

HB 350 (Impaired Driving Amendments)

Libertas Institute opposes this bill.

This bill increases the penalty for someone driving with a drug metabolite (and isn't impaired as a result) and who then injures another person as a result of simple negligence.

Libertas opposes this bill. Elevating penalties on a person who isn't impaired, but who made a simple driving error, is inappropriate and contrary to recent criminal justice reforms.