Prohibiting issuance of citations for alcohol beverages violations to certain underage persons in connection with sexual assault or certain other crimes and prohibiting certain disciplinary sanctions if the underage person is a student

or 4) falsely represent his or her age to obtain alcohol beverages from a retailer (underage violation). A person who commits an underage violation is subject to various penalties, including a forfeiture ranging in amount from $250 to $1,000 depending on the number of prior underage violations the person has committed.

Under this bill, an underage person may not be issued a citation for, or convicted of, an underage violation if all of the following apply:

1. The underage person claims to have been the victim of sexual assault, human trafficking, sexual assault of a child, sexual exploitation of a child, or specified other sex-related crimes (crime victim) or is present with the crime victim at the time of or immediately following the alleged crime (bystander).

2. The crime victim or bystander requested emergency assistance in connection with the alleged crime or encountered a law enforcement officer at a medical facility at which the crime victim received treatment in connection with the alleged crime.

3. The underage person remains at the scene until emergency assistance arrives and thereafter cooperates with providers of emergency assistance. If the underage person encounters a law enforcement officer at a medical facility, the underage person cooperates with the officer and furnishes any requested information. This requirement to cooperate, however, does not apply if the underage person lacks capacity to cooperate.

4. The underage person has not fraudulently requested emergency assistance to avoid a citation for an underage violation.

The bill also prohibits the Board of Regents of the UW System and any two-year or four-year UW System school from imposing specified disciplinary sanctions against a student who commits an underage violation, but only if the bill exempts the student from a citation or conviction for the violation. The prohibited disciplinary sanctions are the following: 1) removal from a course in progress; 2) enrollment restrictions on a course or program; 3) suspension or expulsion; and 4) exclusion from student housing.