Sec. 3017. Impaired driving countermeasure
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It is the sense of Congress that— a priority should be placed on creating State systems, programs, and processes that improve impaired driving detection in cases in which alcohol, drugs, and especially multiple substances are involved; States and communities should have access to a broader range of countermeasures, technologies, and resources to address multiple substance impaired driving; and increased Federal funding should be made available for efforts to improve public safety through the approaches described in paragraphs
(1)and (2). The purpose of this section is to increase national investment in, and maximize the use of, innovative programs and technologies to eliminate multiple substance impaired driving. Section 405(d) of title 23, United States Code, is amended— in paragraph (4)— in subparagraph (B)— by striking clause
(iii)and inserting the following: court support of high-visibility enforcement efforts; hiring criminal justice professionals, including law enforcement officers, prosecutors, traffic safety resource prosecutors, judges, judicial outreach liaisons, and probation officers; training and education of the criminal justice professionals described in subclause
(II)to assist those professionals in preventing impaired driving and handling impaired driving cases, including by providing compensation to a law enforcement officer to replace a law enforcement officer who is— receiving such drug recognition expert training; or participating as an instructor in such drug recognition expert training; and establishing driving while intoxicated courts; ; by striking clauses
(v)and
(vi)and inserting the following: improving— blood alcohol concentration screening and testing; the detection of potentially impairing drugs, including through the use of oral fluid as a specimen; and reporting relating to the testing and detection described in subclauses
(I)and (II); paid and earned media in support of high-visibility enforcement efforts; conducting initial and continuing— standardized field sobriety training, advanced roadside impaired driving enforcement training, and drug recognition expert training for law enforcement; and law enforcement phlebotomy training; and to purchase equipment to carry out impaired driving enforcement activities authorized by this subsection; ; in clause (ix), by striking and at the end; in clause (x), by striking the period at the end and inserting ; and ; and by adding at the end the following: testing and implementing programs and purchasing technologies to better identify, monitor, or treat impaired drivers, including— oral fluid screening technologies; electronic warrant programs; equipment to increase the scope, quantity, quality, and timeliness of forensic toxicology chemical testing; case management software to support the management of impaired driving offenders; and technology to monitor impaired driving offenders. ; and in subparagraph (C)— in the second sentence, by striking Medium-range and inserting the following: Subject to clause (iii), medium-range ; in the first sentence, by striking Low-range and inserting the following: Subject to clause (iii), low-range ; and by adding at the end the following: A State may use grant funds for any expenditure designed to increase the timely and accurate reporting of crash information, including electronic crash reporting systems that allow accurate real-time or near real-time uploading of crash information, and impaired driving criminal justice information to Federal, State, and local databases. A State may use grant funds for any expenditure to research or evaluate impaired driving countermeasures. ; and in paragraph (7)(A), in the matter preceding clause (i), by inserting or local after authorizes a State .