State Overview
KANSAS
4.5 4.
STATE SNAPSHOT
WAYS TO IMPROVE
• Enact a law making child endangerment a felony
Kansas lawmakers took action during the 2017 session to create a compliance based removal component to the state’s all-offender interlock law. Due in part to the state’s 2011 interlock law, drunk driving deaths have dropped by 34 percent.
KENTUCKY
4.5 3
• Enact administrative license revocation • Enact a law making child endangerment a felony • Expedite warrants for suspected drunk drivers who refuse an alcohol test
In 2019, Kentucky enacted legislation to require the use of ignition interlocks for all convicted drunk drivers.
LOUISIANA
4.5 2.
• Add compliance-based removal to existing all-offender ignition interlock law • Conduct sobriety checkpoints at least monthly • Enact administrative license revocation • Make ignition interlocks available to first offenders upon arrest • Enact a law making child endangerment a felony
Louisiana is on the path to eliminating drunk driving. The state is reaping the benefits of passing an all-offender ignition interlock law in 2007. As a result of this law, drunk driving deaths have decreased by 42 percent. However, lawmakers have done nothing to improve the law in nearly 13 years. MADD calls on lawmakers to close loopholes to ensure all first-time offenders use an interlock and that the device is mandated for any plea agreement.
MAINE
4.5 3.
• Add compliance-based removal to existing all-offender ignition interlock law • Conduct sobriety checkpoints at least monthly • Enact a law making child endangerment a felony
Maine became the 20th state to enact an all-offender ignition interlock law in 2013. Maine has not done anything to improve how they deal with ALL drunk drivers since the 2013 law went into effect. MADD calls on lawmakers to close loopholes in the law.
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