HI: Hawaii drunken driving bill moves forward after deadly crash
By Associated Press
February 10, 2019
HONOLULU (AP) – Hawaii lawmakers have advanced a measure that would allow judges to prohibit people convicted of drunken driving from purchasing or publicly consuming alcohol for three years after their conviction.
The measure, introduced by House Judiciary Chairman Chris Lee, has yet to be heard by the House Finance Committee and the Senate, the Honolulu Star-Advertiser reported Friday.
The House Judiciary Committee moved the bill forward at a hearing on Thursday.
The proposed legislation comes in the wake of a deadly crash that killed three people in Honolulu. Police say the driver was intoxicated.
The widow of William Travis Lau, a 39-year-old Honolulu doctor who was one of those killed, testified in favor of the bill.