ALCOHOL OFFENSES: LIC. SANCTIONS H.B. 4875 (S-1): FLOOR ANALYSIS
House Bill 4875 (Substitute S-1 as reported) Sponsor: Representative Michael Nye House Committee: Judiciary and Civil Rights Senate Committee: Judiciary
The bill would amend the Michigan Vehicle Code to do all of the following:
-- Repeal from the Michigan Liquor Control Act and reenact in the Vehicle Code a prohibition against transporting or possessing alcohol, in a motor vehicle, by someone under 21 years of age.
-- Require parental notification when a person under 18 was alleged to have transported or possessed alcohol in a vehicle.
-- Provide for driver’s license sanctions and other penalties for transporting or possessing, in a motor vehicle, alcohol in an open container and for a minor’s transporting or possessing alcohol in a motor vehicle.
-- Provide for driver’s license sanctions for failure to answer a citation or a notice to appear for a minor’s possession, purchase, or consumption of alcohol; transporting or possessing an open container of alcohol in a motor vehicle; or a minor’s transporting or possessing alcohol in a motor vehicle.
-- Specify that failure to answer a citation or notice to appear for the possession, purchase, or consumption of alcohol by a person under 21 would not be considered a violation for purposes of assigning points to a person’s driver’s license.
-- Delete a requirement that $30 of every $125 license reinstatement fee for certain offenses be deposited in the “Underage Drinking Case Information Management Fund” (which was never enacted), and that the remaining $95 be allocated to the Department of State.
-- Require the Secretary of State to include in the annual report of drunk driving dispositions those dispositions for a minor’s possession, purchase, or consumption of alcohol and the provision or use of fraudulent identification to purchase alcohol.
The bill would take effect on April 1, 1997.
MCL 257.303 et al. Legislative Analyst: P. Affholter
Costs to the Department of State regarding driver’s license suspensions would be offset by driver’s license reinstatement fees.
Date Completed: 12-5-96 Fiscal Analyst: B. Bowerman
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This analysis was prepared by nonpartisan Senate staff for use by the Senate in its deliberations and does not constitute an official statement of legislative intent.