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HB120 Alabama 2013 Session

Updated Jul 24, 2021
HB120 Alabama 2013 Session
House Bill
Expired
Current Status
Regular Session 2013
Session
1
Sponsor

Summary

Primary Sponsor
Bill Poole
Republican
Session
Regular Session 2013
Title
Motor vehicles, persons involved in accidents causing serious bodily injury or death required to submit to blood tests, law enforcement officers authorized to take reasonable steps to obtain sample, immunity, Sec. 32-5-200 am'd.
Description

Under existing law, a person involved in an accident that results in death or a serious physical injury to any person is deemed to have given consent to a blood test to determine alcohol content or the presence of certain substances. The failure to submit to a test will result in the suspension of the person's driver's license for a period of two years.

This bill would require all persons involved in an accident that results in death or a serious physical injury to submit to a blood test and would allow a law enforcement officer to take reasonable steps to obtain the blood sample.

This bill would also provide certain health care providers immunity from civil or criminal liability related to the administration of a blood test at the direction of law enforcement.

Subjects
Motor Vehicles

Bill Actions

H

Indefinitely Postponed

H

Pending third reading on day 12 Favorable from Public Safety and Homeland Security with 1 substitute and 1 amendment

H

Public Safety and Homeland Security first Substitute Offered

H

Read for the second time and placed on the calendar with 1 substitute and 1 amendment

H

Read for the first time and referred to the House of Representatives committee on Public Safety and Homeland Security

Bill Text

Documents

Source: Alabama Legislature