To mandate the immediate impoundment of a motor vehicle involved in a DUI arrest for at least twelve hours. The bill is named “Hailey’s Act,” after Hailey French, who suffered life threatening injuries in a DUI accident in 2009 by a driver who had been arrested for DUI just hours before the accident. Makes the primary reason for impoundment public safety, rather than obstruction of traffic and eliminates officer discretion in ordering impoundment. If the owner of the vehicle is not the person involved in the DUI arrest, he/she may pick up the vehicle after initial impoundment, before 12 hours have elapsed (Companion: SB 5000).   Official Text and Analysis.

Adds that a legal owner may recover a car from impound.

Allows a legal owner, who is not the arrested driver, to redeem the vehicle upon impound.