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Kentucky Legislature to Consider Tougher DUI Laws in 2011

By Stephen J. Isaacs, Esq.

It appears that the Kentucky Legislature will consider amending Kentucky?s DUI laws for the next legislative session beginning January 4, 2011.  In many ways, Kentucky appears to be following the guidance of the National Transportation Safety Board to combat hard-core drunken driving, which is urging states to enact stronger legislation to adopt strong countermeasures to stop impaired driving. According to the NTSB, more than 70% of all drunken-driving crashes involved hard-core offenders last year.  Two Kentucky Representatives have prefiled bills for consideration by the general assembly to address hard-core drunken driving: Representative Mike Harmon, R-Danville, prefiled a bill (BR 33) for consideration by the  general assembly session that would increase DUI penalties for repeat offenders...continue to full post

Full post as published by Kentucky DUI Defense Lawyer on December 28, 2010 (boomark / email).