PHOENIX (AP) - An Arizona Senate panel has approved a revived version of legislation requiring drug or alcohol testing for drivers involved in major crashes.
Legislators revived the measure after it failed to get a hearing in the House. It would require testing for drivers who cause fatal accidents.
House Bill 2066 is being sought by the parents of an 18-year-old Phoenix Horizon High School graduate who was killed last June. Joe Smith and a man in another vehicle died when a semi-truck slammed into stopped traffic on Interstate 10.
The driver told a state trooper that he was tired but he wasn’t tested or charged. Republican Sen. John Kavanagh called the proposal blatantly unconstitutional.
The Senate Committee on Appropriations voted 6-3 Tuesday to send the measure to the full Senate.
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