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Bill making it legal to drive drunk at home makes it halfway through Virginia General Assembly, but [View all]
Bill making it legal to drive drunk at home makes it halfway through Virginia General Assembly, but fails lateVirginians who want to crack open a beer or two while doing yard work on a riding lawnmower came close to getting a green light from the General Assembly.
But drinking and getting behind the wheel in your own yard or driveway could still mean big legal trouble after a House of Delegates subcommittee voted down legislation to put private homes beyond the reach of the state's drunk-driving laws.
The Senate passed the bill 37-3 last month, but lawmakers in the House blocked it Friday after deciding it was too difficult to draw a distinction between the guy calmly drinking beer while listening to the radio in a parked car and the guy doing doughnuts on his front lawn.
A House Courts of Justice subcommittee voted 7-0 Friday to kill Senate Bill 308.
Read more: http://www.richmond.com/news/virginia/government-politics/general-assembly/bill-making-it-legal-to-drive-drunk-at-home-makes/article_26f295d3-7da9-52f5-950a-692f25a1c0d3.html
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