Utah House committee rejects bill to delay .05% DUI law

SALT LAKE CITY — Utah's toughest-in-the-nation DUI law will go into effect Dec. 30, barring an unlikely change of direction among state lawmakers.An attempt to delay dropping the legal blood-alcohol content for driving from .08 percent to .05 percent in Utah failed Wednesday. The House Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice Committee rejected a bill on a 6-2 vote that would have put it off for one year."This is a bad policy and we need to fix it," said Rep. Karen Kwan, D-Murray, said in argu