Delaware state lawmakers have agreed to join the rest of the nation by lowering the state’s drunken-driving threshold from 0.10 percent to 0.08 percent.

Gov. Ruth Ann Minner is expected to sign the measure, preserving federal road dollars.

Delaware was the last state to make a change. The governors of Colorado and Minnesota signed legislation lowering the blood alcohol limit in their states this spring.

The Senate voted 20-1 to approve the lower threshold, but only after adding an amendment to the bill – HB111 – that would permit first-time offenders convicted with a blood-alcohol level below 0.08 to receive a conditional driver’s license immediately without a requirement to take an alcohol education course, The Associated Press reported. The House passed the amended bill unanimously.

The state stood to lose $2 million in federal highway funds if it did not make the change.