Bill Text: HI SB2474 | 2010 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Intoxicating Liquor; Minors; Immunity From Prosecution

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 10-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2010-03-18 - (H) Passed Second Reading as amended in HD 1 and referred to the committee(s) on JUD/CPC with none voting no (0) and Cabanilla, Finnegan, Manahan, M. Oshiro excused (4). [SB2474 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2010-SB2474-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2550

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    S.B. No. 2474

       S.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Colleen Hanabusa

President of the Senate

Twenty-Fifth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2010

State of Hawaii

 

Madam:

 

     Your Committee on Judiciary and Government Operations, to which was referred S.B. No. 2474 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO INTOXICATING LIQUOR VIOLATIONS INVOLVING MINORS,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to encourage minors to call for help in the event of an alcohol-related medical emergency by:

 

     (1)  Providing, under certain conditions, immunity from prosecution to the minor for the consumption, purchase, or possession of liquor, if the minor summons medical treatment for another minor who requires the treatment as a result of consuming liquor; and

 

     (2)  Providing similar immunity, under certain conditions, to the minor who required the medical treatment and one or two other minors acting in concert with the minor summoning medical treatment.

 

     Your Committee finds that minors faced with a medical emergency as a result of excess drinking of alcohol often hesitate to call for help because of the fear of facing legal charges related to alcohol possession and use by a minor.  Providing immunity under these limited circumstances has proven to be an effective means of saving lives by encouraging young people to call for help.  Your Committee finds that although underage drinking is a continuing problem, it is important for minors to have this immunity to help save lives in our community.

 

     Your Committee has made technical, nonsubstantive stylistic changes for the purposes of clarity and consistency.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Judiciary and Government Operations that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2474, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2474, S.D. 1.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Judiciary and Government Operations,

 

		____________________________ BRIAN T. TANIGUCHI, Chair