Bill Text: FL H0105 | 2011 | Regular Session | Engrossed

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Bill Title: Open House Parties

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Republican 7-1)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2011-05-03 - Ordered enrolled -HJ 1101 [H0105 Detail]

Download: Florida-2011-H0105-Engrossed.html

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CS/HB 105

1	A bill to be entitled
2	An act relating to open house parties; amending s.
3	856.015, F.S.; providing that a person who violates the
4	open house party statute a second or subsequent time
5	commits a misdemeanor of the first degree; providing that
6	a person commits a misdemeanor of the first degree if the
7	violation of the open house party statute causes or
8	contributes to causing serious bodily injury or death to
9	the minor, or causes or contributes to causing serious
10	bodily injury or death to another person as a result of
11	the minor's consumption of alcohol or drugs at the open
12	house party; providing criminal penalties; providing an
13	effective date.
14
15	Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
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17	Section 1.  Subsections (2) and (4) of section 856.015,
18	Florida Statutes, are amended, and subsection (5) is added to
19	that section, to read:
20	856.015  Open house parties.-
21	(2)  A No person having control of any residence may not
22	shall allow an open house party to take place at the said
23	residence if any alcoholic beverage or drug is possessed or
24	consumed at the said residence by any minor where the person
25	knows that an alcoholic beverage or drug is in the possession of
26	or being consumed by a minor at the said residence and where the
27	person fails to take reasonable steps to prevent the possession
28	or consumption of the alcoholic beverage or drug.
29	(4)  Any person who violates any of the provisions of
30	subsection (2) commits a misdemeanor of the second degree,
31	punishable as provided in s. 775.082 or s. 775.083. A person who
32	violates subsection (2) a second or subsequent time commits a
33	misdemeanor of the first degree, punishable as provided in s.
34	775.082 or s. 775.083.
35	(5)  If a violation of subsection (2) causes or contributes
36	to causing serious bodily injury, as defined in s. 316.1933, or
37	death to the minor, or if the minor causes or contributes to
38	causing serious bodily injury or death to another as a result of
39	the minor's consumption of alcohol or drugs at the open house
40	party, the violation is a misdemeanor of the first degree,
41	punishable as provided in s. 775.082 or s. 775.083.
42	Section 2.  This act shall take effect July 1, 2011.

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