{"id":196252970,"date":"2011-03-22T10:42:50","date_gmt":"2011-03-22T10:42:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=196252970"},"modified":"2011-03-22T10:42:50","modified_gmt":"2011-03-22T10:42:50","slug":"panel-rejects-tough-drunk-driving-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=196252970","title":{"rendered":"Panel rejects tough drunk driving bill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>from Getting There by Michael Dresser<\/p>\n<p>The House Judiciary Committee live up to its reputation as the graveyard of strong drunk-driving legislation last week as it killed a bill that would have increased penalties for refusing to take a blood-alcohol test for a second time. The bill would have allowed a $1,000 fine or up to a 12-month jail term for such a refusal.<\/p>\n<p>The bill was one of the primary objectives of anti-drunk-driving activists during this legislative session and won the endorsement of police and prosecutors.<\/p>\n<p>The committee rejected the measure on a 12-7 vote.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/weblogs.baltimoresun.com\/news\/traffic\/2011\/03\/panel_rejects_tough_drunk_driv.html\">https:\/\/weblogs.baltimoresun.com\/news\/traffic\/2011\/03\/panel_rejects_tough_drunk_driv.html<\/a>oldId.20110322104250526<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from Getting There by Michael Dresser The House Judiciary Committee live up to its reputation as the graveyard of strong drunk-driving legislation last week as it killed a bill that would have increased penalties for refusing to take a blood-alcohol test for a second time. The bill would have allowed a $1,000 fine or up &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=196252970\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Panel rejects tough drunk driving bill&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-196252970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bike-laws"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196252970","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=196252970"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196252970\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=196252970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=196252970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=196252970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}