Report Title:

Intoxicating Liquor; Alcohol Management Training

Description:

Requires liquor licensees to have supervisory personnel and servers who have completed an alcohol management training program.

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES	H.B. NO.	3276
TWENTY-FOURTH LEGISLATURE, 2008
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.  Chapter 281, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by adding a new section to part III to be appropriately designated and to read as follows:

     "§281-  Techniques of alcohol management training. (a)  The commission may not issue a license, renewal license, or an on or off premises license, or allow the transfer of a more than fifty per cent interest in an existing on premises license unless the applicant or transferee offers proof acceptable to the commission that the applicant or transferee has employed or presently employs on the licensed premises, at a minimum, supervisory personnel and servers on each shift and during all hours in which alcoholic liquor is served who have successfully completed a techniques of alcohol management server training program.  The commission may deem an individual's enrollment and active participation in a server training program as a successful completion of the program for such time as the individual is participating.  The commission may allow an applicant or a conditionally approved licensee at least one hundred and eighty days, or more upon a showing of good cause, to meet the minimum personnel training requirements of this section.  The commission may suspend the license of a conditionally approved licensee for failure to comply with this section.

(b)  The techniques of alcohol management training program shall be provided by a not-for-profit organization that shall train point-of-sale personnel, and the topics of the program shall cover, at a minimum:

(1) Clinical effects of alcohol;

(2) Methods of preventing second party sales of alcohol;

(3) Recognizing signs of intoxication;

(4) Methods to prevent underage drinking;

(5) Federal, state, and county laws that are relevant to such personnel; and

(6) Consequences of section 291E-64 that creates a 0.02 per cent blood alcohol content limit for drivers under twenty-one years of age.

(c)  This section shall apply to the following classes of licenses granted under section 281-31:

(1) Class 2.  Restaurant license;

(2) Class 5.  Dispensers' license;

(3) Class 10.  Special license;

(4) Class 11.  Cabaret license;

(5) Class 12.  Hotel license;

(6) Class 13.  Caterer license; and

(7) Class 14.  Brewpub license."

     SECTION 2.  New statutory material is underscored.

     SECTION 3.  This Act shall take effect on October 1, 2008.

INTRODUCED BY:

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