MADD
needs your help to stop impaired driving by urging lawmakers to support
two newly introduced proposals. SB 907 by Senator Archuleta makes
multiple improvements to the DUI law to ensure justice for victims of
impaired driving. AB 1830 by Assembly Member Petrie-Norris makes
California the 35th state to require ignition interlocks for all
convicted drunk drivers.
Please email your lawmakers in support of SB 907 by going here. Taking
action is quick and easy. Please feel free to personalize your letter
to your lawmakers using the MADD form provided in the link.
For more information on SB 907, please see below. Please also go here to email your lawmakers in support of AB 1830 to require ignition interlocks for all convicted drunk drivers.
According to the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, laws like AB
1830 reduce drunk driving deaths by 26%. AB 1830 could save 253 lives
every year.
Please email your lawmakers today!
Sincerely,
Pat Rillera
MADD California Executive Director
Key components of SB 907
- Creates Braun’s Law to
mandate Watson advisements in all situations where a DUI is dismissed
by the court or plead down to any other charge (including a hit and
run). After receiving a Watson advisement, an individual who drives
drunk again and kills someone may face second degree murder
charges.
- Creates Kolya and Anya’s Law to
allow full term consecutive sentencing for multiple violations of gross
vehicular manslaughter and vehicular manslaughter while intoxicated.
This provision creates an exception to the “volume discount” or 1/3 the
mid-term rule for consecutive sentencing.
- Closes a
loophole where someone who kills another while driving drunk may serve
less time than if the victim lived as it adds gross vehicular
manslaughter and vehicular manslaughter while intoxicated to the
violent felony list in PC 667.5(c).
- Increases punishment
for hit and run and hit and run with injury if the driver has a prior
DUI conviction within 10 years. MADD believes anyone who causes a hit
and run crash should face equitable penalties to that of impaired
drivers.
- Targets repeat offenders by adding a 3-year
enhancement for prior felony DUI convictions. Currently, an individual
typically receives a felony DUI upon their fourth violation within 10
years.
Riechel
Reports - City
of San Bruno CA Events and of Interest to San Bruno Residents