SB 5872 - DIGEST

 

                  (SEE ALSO PROPOSED 1ST SUB)

 

     Provides that it is a traffic infraction for a person to drive or be in physical control of a motor vehicle after consuming alcohol if the person operates or is in physical control of a motor vehicle within this state and the person:  (1) Is age twenty-one or over; and

     (2) has, within two hours after operating or being in physical control of the motor vehicle, an alcohol concentration of at least 0.02 but less than the concentration specified in RCW 46.61.502, as shown by analysis of the person's breath or blood made under RCW 46.61.506.

     Directs the department to suspend for thirty days the license or permit to drive, or the nonresident driving privilege, of a person found to have committed a violation of this act.