HB 1124: DUI electronic monitoring

Summary

• $ Allows the court to provide equivalent alternatives to mandatory electronic monitoring when sentencing DUI offenders. Equivalent alternatives include such things as additional jail time or work camp.
• $ Provides grounds for giving such an alternative sentence including lack of necessary facilities, residence outside the state, and belief that the offender would violate the conditions of electronic monitoring.
• C Provides that in the event jail time plus electronic monitoring equals more than one year of confinement, the jail time is to be served first and the monitoring or equivalent sentence is to be reduced so the total does not exceed one year.

From the Substitute House Bill Report (SHB 1124), written by the Legislature's nonpartisan staff. Read the full report ↗