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HB127: Alcoholic beverages; penalty for providing to an underaged person.
Chief Patron
Del.
Harry Purkey (R-82)
Harry Purkey
(R-82)
Virginia Beach, VA
Served: 1986–
Progress
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Introduced |
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Passed Committee |
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Passed House |
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Passed Senate |
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Signed by Governor |
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Became Law |
Status
02/12/2008: Failed to Pass in Committee
Summary
Providing alcohol to underaged drinker; penalty. Provides that if a person is found guilty of providing alcohol to an underaged person and the underaged person to whom he provided or assisted in giving alcohol was his child or in his home or under his supervision at the time of the offense, the person shall have his license to operate a motor vehicle suspended for a period of one year. The current penalty for any offender includes license suspension for no more than one year.
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Votes were cast on this bill on the following dates for which Richmond Sunlight has video: 02/01/2008, 02/01/2008 and 02/12/2008.
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Comments
Give your teenager a glass of wine with Christmas dinner, lose your license?
Better yet, take your 17 year old to church and let them take communion wine and lose your license to drive for a year? Freedom of religion anyone?
This is a really bad idea. I can't understand why we'd want to take away a parent's license for the crime of giving their adult child a glass of wine with Thanksgiving dinner.
This is exactly what I said would happen after the overly large sentence passed against the parents in Charlottesville who threw that party. Once you wander down the puritanical road of legistlating morality there is no end to it. Ironically the result is that kids grow up not knowing how to responsibly use alchohol, get to college and really get themselves into trouble.
In fact, what I'd like to see is the complete reverse of this law. I'd like to see a law that allows parents to give moderate amounts of alcohol to their kids,to be used under supervision of an adult, and possibly to include other people's kids with written permission. If we are serious about combating the number of deaths of kids from alchohol then we need the legal equivalent of a "learner's permit" for alchohol.
This bill needs to be trashed. Wine with dinner,loose your license? Sign them up to go to Iraq, that is ok?
This law is ridiculous.
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