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JACKSON, Miss. — A lawmaker from Mississippi wants to pass a bill forcing the state’s repeat DUI offenders to have special automobile tags.

Representative Gary Chism of Columbus is currently working on the bill that would require anyone who has been convicted of their second DUI to have a special tag on their car.

“If you ain’t learned your lesson after the first one, then we need to step in and do something to get your attention,” Chism is reported as saying by The Clarion-Ledger. “Maybe if all your neighbors know, and the Highway Patrol know, they won’t be as likely to get out there weaving on the roads again.”

Similar laws are already on the books in Ohio, Minnesota, Oregon and Iowa.

The main problem Chism is facing now is figuring out how to tighten down on the law to prevent DUI offenders from taking advantage of any loopholes.

Opponents of similar bills argued it unnecessarily humiliates misdemeanor offenders, sometimes causes them to lose their jobs, and sets a “trend of over-criminalization.”

Under current Mississippi law, first-time offenders can have their license suspended for 90 days, or be forced to install an interlock device on their car.

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