Salva arraignment postponed

The arraignment for Rep. Ray Salva, D-Independence, who is charged with driving while intoxicated has been postponed until 9 a.m. April 24, according to Cole County Circuit Court records. The arraignment has originally been scheduled for Tuesday.
Salva, 59, was arrested Feb. 21 by the Cole County Sheriff's Department. News accounts indicate he was returning from an event at the capitol when he was stopped.
Though Salva's license was taken from him after his arrest, as was noted in the March 3 Turner Report, it did not take long for him to be legally on the street again.
Cole County Circuit Court Judge Thomas Lloyd Sodergren stayed the action to revoke Salva's license, pending the results of a 1:30 p.m. April 6 hearing.
Salva authored a bill in 2005 which would have weakened the state's point system and prevent licenses from being revoked for those convicted of offenses that did not occur while driving motor vehicles.
Under Salva's bill, a person driving a watercraft or a tractor while intoxicated could have killed someone, but it would not have affected their ability to have a Missouri driver's license.
More information on that bill was featured in the March 4 Turner Report.