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SUBSTITUTE
HOUSE BILL 1082
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AS
AMENDED BY THE SENATE
Passed
Legislature - 1993 Regular Session
State of Washington 53rd
Legislature 1993 Regular Session
By
Read
first time 01/29/93. Referred to Committee on .
Combating student alcohol abuse in colleges and universities.
AN ACT Relating to alcohol abuse and underage
drinking among college and university students; and creating a new section.
BE
IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:
NEW SECTION. Sec. 1. No
later than January 1, 1994, each of the state universities, regional
universities, and The Evergreen State College shall submit to the Washington
higher education coordinating board a comprehensive plan to combat student
alcohol abuse, including underage drinking. The comprehensive plan must
include means for assuring to the highest degree possible that there is no
underage drinking on the college or university campus. The comprehensive plan
must also provide details of services that will be offered to students who are problem
drinkers. Further, the plan must include strategies for combating alcohol
abuse and underage drinking in student residences, such as fraternities and
sororities. The strategies for combating alcohol abuse and underage drinking
must include, but not be limited to, a program in which the college or
university enters into individual agreements with all of the fraternities and
sororities at the college or university, setting forth its expectations with
respect to the conduct of those groups and their members and the sanctions that
are to be imposed should the groups fail to satisfy the expectations. The
agreements must contain at least the following provisions:
(1) Chapters and their individual members must
be expected to comply with federal, state, and local laws and to cooperate
fully with the police, fire safety officials, and representatives of the
Washington state liquor control board as they carry out their responsibilities;
(2) Chapters must be held accountable for the
conduct of their individual members, residents, and guests, and must be
expected to take disciplinary actions against members who violate the rules and
expectations of their chapters, the college or university, or the community,
and to report the actions taken to the appropriate college or university
official;
(3) Each organization shall identify persons
who can be contacted by the police and other enforcement agencies twenty-four
hours a day to handle emergency concerns;
(4) Chapters shall conduct uniform education
programs covering substance abuse and acquaintance rape;
(5) Chapters shall register all parties
involving a minimum of twenty-five people where alcohol is consumed with the
college or university. A chapter meeting or gathering with only chapter
members in attendance shall not be considered a party under this subsection.
Banquet permits must be obtained from the liquor control board for every party
under this subsection;
(6) The college or university shall review the
agreements for renewal on an annual basis;
(7) Sanctions for violations of the agreements
must include, but not be limited to, warnings, reprimands, monetary fines,
restitution for property damage, probation, suspension, or withdrawal of
recognition. Upon withdrawal of recognition of a fraternity or sorority
chapter the college or university shall immediately notify the national
fraternity or sorority that the chapter is no longer in good standing at the
college or university.
Copies of the comprehensive plan must be
submitted by January 1, 1994, to the house of representatives committees on
commerce and labor and higher education and the senate committees on labor and
commerce and higher education.
