Report Title:

Promoting liquor to minors; mandatory jail sentence

Description:

Changes the classification of the offense of promoting intoxicating liquor to a minor from a misdemeanor to a petty misdemeanor.  Provides for a mandatory jail sentence for those convicted of the offense.

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES	H.B. NO.	1259
TWENTY-FOURTH LEGISLATURE, 2007
STATE OF HAWAII

A BILL FOR AN ACT

RELATING TO PROMOTING INTOXICATING LIQUOR TO A MINOR.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:

     SECTION 1.  This Act shall be known as the "Jail Time for Giving Liquor to Minors Act."

     SECTION 2.  Section 712-1250.5, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by amending subsection (4) to read as follows:

     "(4)  Promoting intoxicating liquor to a person under the age of twenty-one is a petty misdemeanor.  Every person convicted of violating this section shall be sentenced as follows:

(a) For a first conviction, the person shall serve a minimum term of imprisonment of not less than ten days;

(b) For a second conviction within five years, the person shall serve a term of imprisonment of not less than twenty days; and

(c) For a third or subsequent conviction within five years, the person shall serve a term of imprisonment of not less than thirty days."

     SECTION 3.  Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken.  New statutory material is underscored.

     SECTION 4.  This Act shall take effect upon its approval.

INTRODUCED BY:	_____________________________
	BY REQUEST