HB 436: Impaired Driving Amendments - Utah

Amended Excerpts 2/14/2025 11:02:349 → Amended 2/14/2025 11:02:349 · 6 edits

MODERATE

This bill amends Utah's impaired driving laws to standardize how DUI crash and arrest data is collected, reported, and analyzed by state agencies. It requires courts and law enforcement to submit specific impairment data to the Department of Public Safety, which must then provide this information to the Commission on Criminal and Juvenile Justice for annual reporting. The changes aim to improve data consistency and enable better evaluation of DUI prevention strategies.

Scope change

The bill expands data collection requirements to include specific impairment test results and expands the scope of reporting from just crash data to include arrests unrelated to crashes.

REQUIREMENT

Amended Section 41-6a-511 to require state courts to collect and maintain DUI data elements, with justice courts now required to transmit dispositions electronically and report the same data elements as state courts.

Modified Section 53-10-118 to require collection of specific impairment data including blood, breath, or urine alcohol concentration readings, and chemical tests detecting alcohol or other drugs, while removing field sobriety test results from the required crash data.

Added requirement for law enforcement to collect and report DUI arrest data even when the arrest is unrelated to a crash, including descriptions of any injuries, deaths, or property damage.

Established that the public safety data portal is the designated repository for all statutorily required DUI crash and arrest data.

Amended Section 63A-16-1002 to require the commission to oversee creation and management of a public safety portal for information and data required to be reported to the commission and accessible to all criminal justice agencies.

TIMELINE

Set a January 1, 2026 start date for the new law enforcement reporting requirements under Section 53-25-104.

Enrolled → Amended Excerpts 2/14/2025 11:02:349 · 2 edits

MINOR

This bill expands DUI data collection requirements by adding field sobriety test results to the data law enforcement must report, while removing 'chemical tests' from the impairment findings list. The changes streamline how impairment evidence is documented and ensure comprehensive crash and arrest data is available for annual DUI reports.

REQUIREMENT

Added field sobriety test results to the list of impairment data law enforcement must collect and report for DUI arrests.

Removed 'chemical tests' from the list of impairment findings, keeping only blood, urine, and breath alcohol concentration readings.

Introduced → Enrolled · 5 edits · Mar 26, 2025

MODERATE

This bill strengthens Utah's DUI data collection and reporting system by requiring law enforcement agencies to submit detailed crash and arrest information to the Department of Public Safety, which then provides it to the State Commission on Criminal and Juvenile Justice for annual reporting. The changes expand data requirements to include specific impairment test results, injury descriptions, and alcohol source information, and establish a public safety data portal as the central repository for this information.

Scope change

The bill expands the scope of data collection from courts and law enforcement agencies to include more detailed impairment testing results, injury/death descriptions, and property damage information for both DUI-related crashes and arrests unrelated to crashes.

REQUIREMENT

Added requirement for law enforcement agencies to collect and report detailed DUI crash and arrest data including impairment test results, injury descriptions, and alcohol source information

Modified annual DUI report requirements to include DUI crash and arrest data collected from law enforcement agencies in addition to court data

TIMELINE

Established January 1, 2026 as the effective date for new DUI data reporting requirements to law enforcement agencies

TECHNICAL

Created a public safety data portal as the central repository for statutorily required DUI and other criminal justice data

ENFORCEMENT

Added requirement for the Department of Public Safety's Criminal Investigations and Technical Services Division to collect DUI data from all law enforcement agencies and provide it to the State Commission on Criminal and Juvenile Justice

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