04/12/2010 01:30 PM House FINANCE

HOUSE BILL NO. 283                                                                                                            
                                                                                                                                
     "An Act relating to the purchasing of and restrictions                                                                     
     concerning alcoholic beverages."                                                                                           
                                                                                                                                
4:20:00 PM                                                                                                                    
                                                                                                                                
WHITNEY  BREWSTER,  DIRECTOR,  DIVISION OF  MOTOR  VEHICLES,                                                                    
DEPARTMENT  OF ADMINISTRATION,  spoke  to  the fiscal  note.                                                                    
Currently  the   Department  of  Motor  Vehicles   places  a                                                                    
restriction on a license when  a court order is received for                                                                    
driving under the influence of  alcohol or refusal offenses.                                                                    
She  understood   that  the  allowable  offenses   would  be                                                                    
broadened  to  include  any  offense  with  two  misdemeanor                                                                    
offenses  or  when  alcohol  has been  determined  to  be  a                                                                    
substantial  influence. She  explained  that the  department                                                                    
took approximately  8000 people  convicted of  a misdemeanor                                                                    
who have  had two  prior convictions and  added them  to the                                                                    
6000 felony convictions. Not all  judges will use an alcohol                                                                    
restriction as a  term of sentencing, nor  will all offenses                                                                    
be  alcohol  related.  The cost  of  license  production  is                                                                    
$2.50.  The   fiscal  note  for  $17.500   is  strictly  for                                                                    
supplies. She pointed  out the change in  revenue will equal                                                                    
$350 thousand.                                                                                                                  
                                                                                                                                
4:22:11 PM                                                                                                                    
                                                                                                                                
Co-Chair Hawker  MOVED to report  CSHB 283 out  of Committee                                                                    
with individual recommendations  and the accompanying fiscal                                                                    
note. There being NO OBJECTION, it was so ordered.                                                                              
                                                                                                                                
CSHB  283(FIN) was  REPORTED  out of  Committee  with a  "do                                                                    
pass" recommendation  and with  attached new fiscal  note by                                                                    
the  Department  of Administration,  new  zero  note by  the                                                                    
Department  of Law,  and previously  published fiscal  note:                                                                    
FN3 (DHS).