Georgia House Bill 860 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Republican 5-1)
Status: Introduced on February 7 2018 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2018-02-12 - House Second Readers
Pending: House Judiciary - Non-Civil Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Article 2 of Chapter 3 of Title 3 of the O.C.G.A., relating to prohibited acts involving alcoholic beverages, so as to provide for a social host's criminal responsibility; to provide for exceptions; to expand criminal responsibility for providing or allowing individuals under 21 years of age to consume alcoholic beverages; to provide for penalties and conditional discharge; to amend Code Section 17-4-23 of the O.C.G.A., relating to the procedure for arrest by citation for motor vehicle violations, so as to allow for arrest by citation for a social hosting offense; to amend Code Section 35-3-37 of the O.C.G.A., relating to criminal history information, so as to allow for record restriction when an individual is given a conditional discharge for a social hosting offense; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.

Alcoholic beverages; social host's criminal responsibility; provisions

Rep. Emory Dunahoo [R]	Rep. Matt Dubnik [R]	Rep. Lee Hawkins [R]	Rep. Timothy Barr [R]
Rep. Joyce Chandler [R]	Rep. Derrick Jackson [D]

Date	Chamber	Action
2018-02-12	House	House Second Readers
2018-02-08	House	House First Readers
2018-02-07	House	House Hopper

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.legis.ga.gov/legislation/52596
Text	https://www.legis.ga.gov/api/legislation/document/20172018/172731