PRINTER'S NO. 2865
No. 2139 Session of 2001
INTRODUCED BY CIVERA, BENNINGHOFF, BEBKO-JONES, BUNT, CAPPELLI,
COLAFELLA, COLEMAN, COY, CREIGHTON, DeLUCA, FLICK, GABIG,
GEIST, HARHAI, HARHART, HORSEY, JAMES, JOSEPHS, KELLER,
MAHER, McGILL, McNAUGHTON, MELIO, R. MILLER, PRESTON,
READSHAW, SHANER, B. SMITH, SOLOBAY, STEELMAN, E. Z. TAYLOR,
J. TAYLOR, THOMAS, TRELLO, WASHINGTON, WATSON AND YOUNGBLOOD,
NOVEMBER 14, 2001
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON JUDICIARY, NOVEMBER 14, 2001
AN ACT
1 Amending Title 75 (Vehicles) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated
2 Statutes, further providing for accidents involving death or
3 personal injury.
4 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
5 hereby enacts as follows:
6 Section 1. Section 3742 of Title 75 of the Pennsylvania
7 Consolidated Statutes is amended by adding a subsection to read:
8 § 3742. Accidents involving death or personal injury.
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10 (c.1) Testing and determining amount of alcohol or
11 controlled substance.--If there is probable cause to believe
12 that serious bodily injury or death has occurred or will occur
13 as a result of an accident, the driver of any vehicle involved
14 in the accident shall submit to a test to determine the alcohol
15 content of blood or the presence of a controlled substance, in
16 the manner and to the same effect as provided in section 1547
1 (relating to chemical testing to determine amount of alcohol or
2 controlled substance).
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4 Section 2. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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