The State Senate may go into extra-ordinary session to pass what’s called the point-oh-eight bill. The Senate failed to take up the measure to lower the legal blood alcohol limit in its session that ended this week.But if Wisconsin does not sign .08 into law by July 15th, the state would lose millions of dollars in federal highway money. Frederica Freyberg reports.
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