Currently, any owner, occupant, or other person with a lawful right to the use and enjoyment of any property who knowingly allows a person under the age of 21 to drink or possess intoxicating liquor or who fails to stop a person under the age of 21 from drinking or possessing intoxicating liquor on his or her property is guilty of a Class A misdemeanor. This act makes the penalty for the crime a Class B misdemeanor for the first offense and a Class A misdemeanor for any subsequent violation.

This act changes provisions regarding driving while intoxicated by modifying and expanding the definitions of "aggravated offender," "chronic offender," and "intoxication-related traffic offense".

The act also restructures the statute regarding involuntary manslaughter in the first degree and eliminates Sections 577.625 and 577.628, RSMo, as enacted in House Bill 353 to make them consistent with Senate Bill 254. As a technical change, this act also modifies sectional references in Section 568.050, RSMo, regarding endangering a child in the second degree.

This act also eliminates inconsistencies regarding the placement of children by various governmental entities in Section 210.117, RSMo, as enacted by House Bill 568, Senate Bill 155, and Senate Bill 420 concerning child abuse.

This act contains an emergency clause.

SUSAN HENDERSON MOORE