The Montana Legislature’s Law and Justice Interim Committee will spend the next 18 months focusing on Montana DUI laws and storage of DNA evidence, said Rep. Shannon Augare, its new chairman.

The Montana DUI study request asks committee members to examine the strengths and weaknesses of Montana’s laws and to compare those laws to other states. The committee also is tasked with studying the incarceration rate for DUI offenses in the state and to determine whether Montana has a culture of accepting drunken driving.

Legislators also asked the committee to study the protocol for how law enforcement agencies collect and maintain DNA evidence in the state; they also asked the committee to come up with statewide standards for how that material is handled.

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