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GA HB896
Bill
Status
Introduced
2/3/2016
Primary Sponsor
Emory Dunahoo
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AI Summary
- Persons who exercise control over property, a vehicle, or a vessel face criminal liability for furnishing or permitting the furnishing of alcoholic beverages to anyone under 21 years of age through criminal negligence, regardless of the alcohol's source
- Provides affirmative defenses for accused social hosts who either took reasonable action to prevent underage drinking (e.g., controlling access, monitoring consumption) or took immediate action to stop violations and/or contacted law enforcement
- Expands civil liability so that custodial parents may sue any person who sells, furnishes, serves, or permits the furnishing of alcohol to their underage child, including through negligence, not just direct provision
- Removes the requirement that a provider must know an intoxicated person "will soon be driving a motor vehicle" for civil liability to attach; liability now extends to anyone who knowingly or through negligence provides alcohol to an underage person or a noticeably intoxicated person
- Eliminates the existing liability shield for property owners, lessees, or lawful occupants of non-licensed premises when underage persons consume alcohol on their property
Legislative Description
Alcoholic beverages; social host's criminal responsibility and civil liability; provisions
Last Action
House Second Readers
2/8/2016
Full Bill Text
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