The Minnesota House voted overwhelmingly March 31 to lower the state’s drunken driving threshold.

House lawmakers voted 113-15 in favor of legislation to lower the state’s blood-alcohol limit for motorists from 0.10 percent to 0.08 percent, the St. Cloud Times reported. The bill now heads back to the Senate to consider House changes.

Passage of SF58 would bring the state in compliance with a federal decree that states adopt the lower limit or lose federal highway dollars. Minnesota is one of only three states (Colorado and Delaware being the others) yet to conform to the federal mandate.

Minnesota’s previous refusal to adhere to the standard could cost the state $100 million in highway dollars by 2007, the newspaper reported. States that adopt the new limit by Oct. 1, 2006, can recover the withheld funds.