A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT to provide that a person commits the offense of impaired driving when operating a motor vehicle while transporting a person seventeen years of age or under with any alcohol in his blood.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1.  G.S. 20-138.1(a) reads as rewritten:
"(a)	Offense. – A person commits the offense of impaired driving if he drives any vehicle upon any highway, any street, or any public vehicular area within this State:
(1)	While under the influence of an impairing substance; 
(2)	After having consumed sufficient alcohol that he has, at any relevant time after the driving, an alcohol concentration of 0.08 or more; or
(3)	While transporting a person 17 years of age or less after having consumed sufficient alcohol that he has, at any relevant time after driving, any alcohol in his blood."
SECTION 2.  This act becomes effective December 1, 2005, and applies to offenses committed on or after that date.