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1. 2 Sep 25

   Advocates say more DUI reforms are needed next session

   CalMatters reports that advocates who backed the surviving bills plan to push for additional DUI legislation in the next legislative session, after most of the original 17-bill package failed this year.

   “Getting behind the wheel when you are impaired is inexcusable — especially when it results in the loss of someone's life. Today, we're creating tougher laws and greater accountability for those who break the law.”

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     Governor Gavin Newsom signed a package of bills Friday aimed at cracking down on repeat drunk drivers in California.

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2. 1 Sep 25

   Bereaved families who pushed the bills react to the signing

   Jennifer Levi, whose son Braun was killed by a repeat drunk driver, and state Sen. Bob Archuleta, whose granddaughter was killed by an impaired driver, said the new laws honored their losses; Newsom and his wife visited Levi's home to mark the signing.

   “Having lost my granddaughter to a repeat drunk driver, this is personal. No family should have to endure what mine has, or what has happened to the Levi family.”

3. backgroundSep 25

   Newsom signs four bills toughening DUI penalties — Newsom signed SB 907 ('Braun's Law'), AB 1687, AB 1546 and AB 1685, which make it easier to charge repeat drunk drivers with murder, extend license suspensions from three to six years, allow a third DUI within 10 years to be charged as a felony, and add license points for intoxicated manslaughter.

4. backgroundSep 1

   Legislature guts a 17-bill DUI package after progressive pushback — An initial package of 17 bills aimed at curbing traffic deaths mostly failed after progressive groups argued that increased enforcement and penalties would disproportionately harm low-income and historically marginalized residents. Only four bills, some pared back, survived to the governor's desk.

5. backgroundMay 4, 2025

   Drunk driver kills 18-year-old Braun Levi in Manhattan Beach — Braun Levi, a Loyola High School tennis player, was struck and killed on Sepulveda Boulevard by a driver with twice the legal blood alcohol limit who was driving on a license suspended for a prior DUI. His death spurred his mother, Jennifer Levi, to become a road safety advocate.