Bill Text: FL S1066 | 2010 | Regular Session | Comm Sub

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Bill Title: Open House Parties [CPSC]

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 3-0)

Status: (Failed) 2010-04-30 - Died in Committee on Criminal and Civil Justice Appropriations [S1066 Detail]

Download: Florida-2010-S1066-Comm_Sub.html

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Florida Senate - 2010                             CS for SB 1066 
 
By the Committee on Criminal Justice; and Senators Altman and 
Fasano 
591-04391-10                                          20101066c1 
1                        A bill to be entitled 
2         An act relating to open house parties; amending s. 
3         856.015, F.S.; providing that a person who violates 
4         the open house party statute a second or subsequent 
5         time commits a misdemeanor of the first degree; 
6         providing that a person commits a misdemeanor of the 
7         first degree if the violation of the open house party 
8         statute causes serious bodily injury or death of a 
9         minor; providing criminal penalties; providing an 
10         effective date. 
11 
12  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida: 
13 
14         Section 1. Subsections (2) and (4) of section 856.015, 
15  Florida Statutes, are amended, and subsection (5) is added to 
16  that section, to read: 
17         856.015 Open house parties.— 
18         (2) A No person having control of any residence may not 
19  shall allow an open house party to take place at the said 
20  residence if any alcoholic beverage or drug is possessed or 
21  consumed at the said residence by any minor where the person 
22  knows that an alcoholic beverage or drug is in the possession of 
23  or being consumed by a minor at the said residence and where the 
24  person fails to take reasonable steps to prevent the possession 
25  or consumption of the alcoholic beverage or drug. 
26         (4) Any person who violates any of the provisions of 
27  subsection (2) commits a misdemeanor of the second degree, 
28  punishable as provided in s. 775.082 or s. 775.083. A person who 
29  violates subsection (2) a second or subsequent time commits a 
30  misdemeanor of the first degree, punishable as provided in s. 
31  775.082 or s. 775.083. 
32         (5) If a violation of subsection (2) causes serious bodily 
33  injury, as defined in s. 316.1933, or death of the minor, it is 
34  a misdemeanor of the first degree, punishable as provided in s. 
35  775.082 or s. 775.083. 
36         Section 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2010.