Saliva Testing Round II: Second House panel weighs legal challenges

Smoke. File photo by Josh Larkin/VTDigger
A second House panel started taking testimony Wednesday on a bill that would allow for saliva testing to detect the presence of drugs in motorists, hearing talk of legal challenges and suggested changes to safeguard the legislation.
“I’m confident it will be hotly litigated,” Vermont Public Safety Commissioner Thomas Anderson, a former federal prosecutor and backer of the saliva testing legislation, told members of the House Judiciary C