This is again the concern of taking away the previous state of the law that we would know that someone had been driving within the previous three hours. This now uses the full force of criminal law by virtue of deeming provisions alone because the section of the act I'm trying to amend is that, if a police officer has reasonable grounds to believe the person has operated a conveyance while the person's ability to operate it was impaired, as opposed to the three-hour standard with regard to reasonable grounds....
I would urge the committee to vote for this to ensure that we haven't created an unreasonable burden on the accused without the provision that three hours prior to the arrest is when we're presuming that they've been drinking, essentially, or other forms of intoxicants.