04/22/1993 02:35 PM Senate JUD

 SENATOR TAYLOR introduced  CSHB 136(FIN)  (DRUNK DRIVING AND                  
 BREATH TEST OFFENSES) as the next order of business.                          
                                                                               
 REPRESENTATIVE ELDON MULDER, prime sponsor of HB 136, said HB
, along with HB 137, are recommendations made by the                       
 Sentencing Commission in relation to alternative sentencing                   
 solutions to potential problems and real problems that are                    
 being experienced within the court system.                                    
                                                                               
 Representative Mulder explained that HB 136 focuses on                        
 alternative sentencing for those people convicted of DWI's.                   
 It proposes that instead of jail time, a person convicted of                  
 DWI spend that time in a halfway house or a CRC.  Currently,                  
 there is approximately a nine-month backlog for an individual                 
 convicted of DWI to actually serve a sentence within the jail                 
 system.  It also requires that a person convicted of DWI would                
 also pay for the time spent in a halfway house as well as                     
 doing community service during the days.   Further, it                        
 requires CRC or halfway house sentencing for first and second                 
 time individuals convicted of DWI's.                                          
                                                                               
 Representative Mulder said the first sections of the bill                     
 focus on changing the issuance of a limited license.                          
 Currently, an individual is allowed to apply for a limited                    
 license up to the sixth time he or she is convicted of a DWI.                 
 HB 136 rolls that back to only one time.                                      
                                                                               
 Representative Mulder directed attention to a letter from                     
 Barbara Mills, Chairman of the Anchorage Chapter of Mothers                   
 Against Drunk Driving, in support of HB 136.                                  
                                                                               
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 JUANITA HENSLEY, Division of Motor Vehicles, Department of                    
 Public Safety, outlined the current law on the revocation of                  
 a driver's license, on the issuance of a limited license, as                  
 well as the changes that will be made in HB 136.                              
                                                                               
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 There being no further testimony on HB 136, SENATOR TAYLOR                    
 asked for the pleasure of the committee.                                      
                                                                               
 SENATOR DONLEY moved that CSHB 136(FIN) be passed out of                      
 committee with individual recommendations.   Hearing no                       
 objection, it was so ordered.