Report Title:

Promoting Liquor to Minors; Sentencing

Description:

Changes the classification of the offense of promoting intoxicating liquor to a minor from a misdemeanor to a petty misdemeanor.  Requires a minimum 24-hour jail sentence for the first offense.  (HB2036 HD1)

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES	H.B. NO.	2036
TWENTY-FOURTH LEGISLATURE, 2008		H.D. 1
STATE OF HAWAII

A BILL FOR AN ACT

RELATING TO INTOXICATING LIQUOR.

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

     SECTION 1.  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.  Any 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 no less than twenty-four hours;

(b) For a second conviction within five years, the person may serve a term of imprisonment of no fewer than twenty days; and

(c) For a third or subsequent conviction within five years, the person may serve a term of imprisonment of no fewer than thirty days."

     SECTION 2.  New statutory material is underscored.

     SECTION 3.  This Act shall take effect upon its approval.