All Roll Calls
Yes: 468 • No: 9
Sponsored By: Ed Neilson (Democratic)
Signed by Governor
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Participants in recognized treatment courts following the required adult treatment standards qualify for interlock licenses during participation. Courts must notify PennDOT when participation changes. After successful completion, PennDOT must restore noncommercial driving without a restoration fee when the court orders it and no other violation authorizes suspension. Courts must also report completion of court-ordered drug and alcohol treatment within five days. If that report arrives late, PennDOT has sole discretion to grant interlock time credit.
Drivers owing chemical-testing restoration fees must pay them before getting unrestricted driving privileges back. The law removes the payment schedule tied to the repealed limited-license program. The provision does not state the fee amounts.
Interlock restrictions continue until PennDOT issues a replacement license without the designation after the suspension and interlock term end. PennDOT must first receive a vendor report showing 60 incident-free days, or 30 days for suspensions under the specified diversion rule. Reportable incidents include a start attempt at 0.08% alcohol or higher without a lower reading within 10 minutes. They also include missed or failed retests and missed required service that leaves the device unable to work. Vendors must report incidents, PennDOT must notify drivers, and the requirement continues until the applicable clean period is met.
The offense of driving without a required interlock also covers drivers subject to the new suspension-period license rules. Penalties include a $300 to $1,000 fine and up to 90 days in jail. Driving without the device with alcohol of at least 0.025% or a listed drug or metabolite brings a $1,000 fine and at least 90 days in jail. Three qualifying convictions from separate acts can support habitual-offender treatment; the aggravated interlock offense is not excluded. Defendants with listed convictions or dispositions also owe a laboratory or paramedic user fee when laboratory services were required for prosecution.
A first qualifying post-diversion DUI violation receives the existing penalties tied to its underlying impairment offense. A specified post-diversion violation is a first-degree misdemeanor when the underlying case involves the highest-alcohol or controlled-substance offense. That grading also covers a general-impairment case involving refusal of testing supported by a valid warrant, court order, or other constitutional basis. The supplied provisions do not state new fine amounts.
For listed offenses, suspension or revocation credit does not start until the driver leaves prison. PennDOT must recall an interlock license after receiving a qualifying offense record that carries another driving sanction, subject to statutory exceptions. The driver must surrender the license. After the other sanction ends, the driver must finish the remaining interlock term before receiving an unrestricted replacement license. Recall also covers interlock licenses issued during suspension.
After covered DUI or testing-related suspensions, drivers must equip each vehicle they plan to drive with an interlock. Those vehicles must be registered and insured. Listed exceptions include qualifying first-offense cases and certification that the person will not drive during the interlock period. Completion of a diversion program within the prior 10 years can affect exception eligibility. The law ends the economic-hardship exception that allowed installation on only one vehicle.
For covered suspensions, credit toward the one-year or 18-month interlock term starts when the interlock license is issued. Time holding a valid interlock license counts toward that term. DUI and test-refusal suspensions from the same incident require only one applicable interlock term, with one license covering both. However, when installation occurs before the suspension starts, the suspension period does not count toward the interlock term.
The law replaces the former limited interlock license and its nonrefundable $65 application fee with a new restricted license. Eligible Pennsylvania drivers with DUI, similar out-of-state, or test-refusal suspensions generally must wait 30 days after the relevant report or court action to apply. Applicants must show interlock installation and insurance, surrender or account for their license, and address fines, costs, and fees. PennDOT must issue a qualified, complete application within 14 days; online or certified-mail applicants receive a camera card. Applying at a designated license center costs an extra $11, adjustable under existing law. Commercial driving is barred, as are applicants without Pennsylvania licensure or required testing, those with revoked, recalled, or canceled privileges, and specified federal or vehicle-homicide bars. Unpaid vehicle judgments require the stated payment or installment arrangements and insurance; the existing prior-offense timing rule also applies.
Private lot operators can set parking rates and violation charges, but must post visible signs identifying private operation and charges. They must place or mail unpaid-charge invoices within 10 business days after parking or a violation. After an affidavit and contract, operators or agents can obtain only registrant names and mailing addresses for invoicing. Data must be secured; agents must destroy records within 24 hours after payment, and intentional misuse carries a $500 fine per violation as a third-degree misdemeanor. PennDOT can audit compliance and charge operators up to $2 per record during the effective calendar year and the next year. Later record fees rise with consumer prices, rounded to the nearest $1.
Suspended applicants needing installation proof can drive one vehicle directly from home to installation and back, carrying vendor appointment or installation proof. Approved providers can offer mobile installation under state standards; participants and unauthorized people cannot watch installation. PennDOT must offer online vehicle-list changes, device transfers, and removal requests, with responses within five business days. Beginning 38 months after enactment, vendors must use an electronic eligibility check, give drivers a free copy, and install within a reasonable time of eligibility. During the transition, PennDOT must determine both license eligibility dates together, starting 30 days after the transition section takes effect and ending when the new license section takes effect.
PennDOT gives interlock license holders a certificate showing their authority to drive an equipped vehicle during suspension. A Pennsylvania judge must dismiss a qualifying driving-while-suspended charge when the driver shows the certificate before or at the hearing. The law also establishes a procedure for substantially similar out-of-state citations.
Vendors generally cannot charge for installation without a PennDOT restoration letter or earlier than 30 business days before eligibility. Without the letter, vendors must verify no interlock-license requirement, confirm a valid license, and obtain a signed voluntary-installation statement. Vendors must refund or cancel improper installation or removal charges, with exceptions for compliant vendors facing later PennDOT record changes. Signing the voluntary statement bars the specified written complaint. PennDOT can impose up to $5,000 per violation and seek vendor decertification.
Employees with interlock requirements can drive employer-owned vehicles without a device when driving is required for their work. The employer must be notified, and the employee must carry the required form with a notarized acknowledgment and contact number. The exception excludes vehicles available for personal use or owned by a business the employee partly or fully owns or controls. It also excludes school vehicles and vehicles designed for more than 15 people, including the driver.
Implied consent for breath or blood testing now covers the specified aggravated interlock offense when police have reasonable grounds. At police request, paramedics can assist with legal blood draws for listed vehicle offenses within their scope of practice. Existing liability protections apply. EMS vehicles can be used only under policies preserving availability for 911 calls. A court can allow the witnessing officer, rather than the paramedic, to testify about the sample's chain of custody.
Required interlock devices must prevent starting or operating a vehicle unless the driver's breath sample shows alcohol below 0.025%. PennDOT approves devices and sends approval notices for publication in the Pennsylvania Bulletin. Existing device approvals and installation, maintenance, and inspection contracts continue until replacement approvals and contracts are in place.
Ed Neilson
Democratic • House
Aaron Bernstine
Republican • House
Benjamin V. Sanchez
Democratic • House
Bud Cook
Republican • House
Carol Hill-Evans
Democratic • House
Christopher M. Rabb
Democratic • House
Dan K. Williams
Democratic • House
Emily Kinkead
Democratic • House
G. Roni Green
Democratic • House
Jeanne McNeill
Democratic • House
Jeremy Shaffer
Republican • House
Jim Haddock
Democratic • House
Joe Ciresi
Democratic • House
Johanny Cepeda-Freytiz
Democratic • House
Jose Giral
Democratic • House
Joseph C. Hohenstein
Democratic • House
Kerry A. Benninghoff
Republican • House
Kristine C. Howard
Democratic • House
Martin T. Causer
Republican • House
Maureen E. Madden
Democratic • House
Melissa Cerrato
Democratic • House
Russ Diamond
Republican • House
Sean Dougherty
Democratic • House
Steven R. Malagari
Democratic • House
Steven C. Mentzer
Republican • House
Tina Pickett
Republican • House
All Roll Calls
Yes: 468 • No: 9
Senate vote • 7/12/2026
House Bill 1862 PN3768, Final Passage
Yes: 45 • No: 5
Senate vote • 7/11/2026
House Bill 1862 PN3685 A04183, FARRY Amendment No. A-4183
Yes: 46 • No: 4
committee vote • 7/10/2026
22 0
Yes: 22 • No: 0
Senate vote • 6/23/2026
House Bill 1862 PN3510 A03765, WARD, J. Amendment No. A-3765
Yes: 49 • No: 0
committee vote • 6/3/2026
14 0
Yes: 14 • No: 0
House vote • 10/28/2025
House Bill 1862 PN2416, FINAL PASSAGE
Yes: 203 • No: 0
committee vote • 10/28/2025
37 0
Yes: 37 • No: 0
committee vote • 10/7/2025
26 0
Yes: 26 • No: 0
committee vote • 10/7/2025
26 0
Yes: 26 • No: 0
Act No. 36 of 2026
Approved by the Governor
Presented to the Governor
Signed in Senate
Signed in House
House concurred in Senate amendments (202-0)
Re-reported on concurrence, as committed
Referred to Rules
Third consideration and final passage (45-5)
Amended on third consideration (46-4)
Re-reported as committed
Re-referred to Appropriations
Amended on third consideration (49-0)
Second consideration
First consideration
Reported as amended
Referred to Transportation
Third consideration and final passage (203-0)
Re-reported as committed
Re-committed to Appropriations
Second consideration
Removed from table
Laid on the table
First consideration
Reported as amended
PN 3768
7/11/2026
PN 3685
6/23/2026
PN 3510
6/3/2026
PN 2416
10/7/2025
PN 2309
9/15/2025
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