Does your community have problems with kegs?  Do people buy kegs and provide alcohol at a party (especially to underage drinkers)?  Do your policestruggle because anaccident happens or they break up parties and don’t know who is responsible for providing the kegs?  This has happened in communities throughout Michigan, and a House committee passed HB 4565 to prevent this.  Sponsored by Rep. Mark Meadows (former East Lansing Mayor),  this will people who purchase kegs to give their name and addresses to the retailer, and kegs would be tagged. This would help police to know who bought the keg, although some retailers are unhappy that they would have to do this.  It also contains language preempting local ordinances, but no communities have local ordinances and when East Lansing tried regulating locally, buyers simply went next door to anonymously purchase kegs. The House is primed to pass this bill today.


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