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To encourage States to enact and enforce Repeat Intoxicated Offender laws. Under Section 164, to avoid the transfer of funds, a State must enact and enforce a repeat intoxicated driver law that establishes, at minimum, certain specified penalties for second and subsequent convictions of driving while intoxicated or driving under the influence. 23 U.S.C. 164(a)(5).
This chart shows obligations for the program by fiscal year. All data for this chart was provided by the
administering agency and sourced from SAM.gov, USASpending.gov, and Treasury.gov.
For more information on each of these data sources, please see the
About the data page.
2016 funds used by States for NHTSA programs are designated for alcohol impaired driving programs and are subject to 23 U.S.C. Section 402 requirements. States spent funds on enforcing laws prohibiting driving while intoxicated, driving under the influence, or other related laws or regulations, including the purchase of equipment, officer training and the use of additional personnel for specific alcohol impaired driving countermeasures. States spent monies on alcohol impaired driving countermeasures including paid media to support the alcohol impaired driving countermeasures.
The California Office of Traffic safety awarded sub-grants to the California Department of Alcohol Beverage Control for alcohol education and awareness programs, which focused on middle school through college age students.
States can use these penalty transfer funds for any eligible Section 402 impaired driving countermeasure. States work with their legislatures to enact and enforce repeat offender laws.
States used these funds for impaired driving repeat offenders. Saturation patrols were introduced as a way to enforce the States’ impaired driving laws. These enforcement efforts were utilized to help the State remove the repeat offenders from driving.
States use these funds provide increased DUI enforcement to include sobriety/driver license checkpoints, task force operations, broad public awareness campaigns to decrease the number of alcohol-involved fatal and injury crashes.
Single Audit Applies (2 CFR Part 200 Subpart F):
For additional information on single audit requirements for this program, review the current Compliance Supplement.
OMB is working with the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) and agency offices of inspectors general to include links to relevant oversight reports. This section will be updated once this information is made available.
