{"id":17479,"date":"2013-04-25T08:09:41","date_gmt":"2013-04-25T13:09:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=17479"},"modified":"2013-04-25T08:09:41","modified_gmt":"2013-04-25T13:09:41","slug":"house-endorses-stiffer-drunk-driving-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=17479","title":{"rendered":"House Endorses Stiffer Drunk Driving Law"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/drinkingdrivinglogo.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-9123\" title=\"drinkingdrivinglogo\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/drinkingdrivinglogo-150x150.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) &#8211; North Dakota&#8217;s House has endorsed a bill aimed at strengthening penalties for drunken driving.<\/p>\n<p>Representatives approved the bill 69-23 on Wednesday. The measure will now go to the Senate.<\/p>\n<p>Along with increased fines and other penalties, the measure would require jail time or community service work for first-time DUI offenders who have blood alcohol content of 0.16 percent. That&#8217;s twice the state&#8217;s legal limit of 0.08 percent.<\/p>\n<p>The bill also would require mandatory participation in the so-called 24\/7 sobriety program for repeat offenders.<\/p>\n<p>A second DUI arrest also would require a minimum sentence of 10 days in jail.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) &#8211; North Dakota&#8217;s House has endorsed a bill aimed at strengthening penalties for drunken driving. Representatives approved the bill 69-23 on Wednesday. The measure will now go to the Senate. Along with increased fines and other penalties, the measure would require jail time or community service work [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-state"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17479","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17479"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17479\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17481,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17479\/revisions\/17481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}