What is Baylea’s Law? MADD strongly supports Baylea’s Law because it allows for increased sentences in fatal impaired driving crashes. Currently, impaired drivers who kill only face a minimum of three years to a maximum of 15 years. Baylea’s Law would increase this minimum to five years with a maximum sentence of 30 years.  

Current minimum sentence not sufficient. The current minimum sentence of three years is insufficient as typically offenders, regardless of the years they are sentenced to incarceration, are able get out on parole significantly earlier. Victims of impaired driving are left with a life sentence. Baylea’s Law helps make the consequences and punishment fit the crime.

The problem of drunk driving is not going away. According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), 58 people were killed in drunk driving crashes in West Virginia in 2023. These preventable fatalities represent 22% of all traffic fatalities.

On this page, please email your state lawmakers in support of Baylea’s Law.