SECOND REGULAR SESSION

HOUSE BILL NO. 1666

95TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY

INTRODUCED BY REPRESENTATIVES FISCHER (107) (Sponsor), ROORDA, ENGLUND, STILL, SCHUPP, LeBLANC, JONES (63), WEBB, PACE, STORCH, SWINGER, NEWMAN, KANDER AND KELLY (Co-sponsors).

4160L.01I                                                                                                                                                  D. ADAM CRUMBLISS, Chief Clerk

AN ACT

To amend chapter 577, RSMo, by adding thereto one new section relating to intoxication-related traffic arrests, with an effective date.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the state of Missouri, as follows:

            Section A. Chapter 577, RSMo, is amended by adding thereto one new section, to be known as section 577.056, to read as follows:

            577.056. 1. The provisions of this section shall be known as and referred to as "Cary's Law".

            2. Notwithstanding any other law, state and local law enforcement agencies shall enter all intoxication-related traffic arrests, as defined in section 577.023, into the Missouri state highway patrol's DWI tracking system (DWITS) within thirty days of the date of arrest.

            3. Any action taken by the prosecutor subsequent to an arrest for an intoxication-related traffic offense, as defined in section 577.023, shall be entered into DWITS within thirty days of any such action.

            4. The Missouri state highway patrol shall report, to the department of public safety and the governor, any agency that it determines has failed to submit information required under this section.

            5. The governor may withhold state funds to any agency, prosecuting or circuit attorney's office, or municipality that prosecutes municipal ordinance violations that fails to comply with this section.

            Section B. Section A of this act shall be effective January 1, 2011.

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