A brand new regulation would require many institutions that serve booze in California to supply drug check instruments and put up signage warning about drink spiking, beginning July 1 this yr.
The measure, AB1310, requires institutions with a Kind 48 liquor license – granted to bars and nightclubs, with out a requirement to serve meals – to supply patrons drug testing kits to check for widespread date-rape medication, sometimes called ‘roofies,’ in accordance with a press launch.
The required signage will embody a message studying, “Don’t get roofied! Drink spiking drug check kits obtainable right here. Ask a workers member for particulars.”
The state says the brand new regulation will have an effect on roughly 2,400 institutions within the Golden State.
Institutions should make check strips obtainable, both without spending a dime or a small cost to prospects who request them. Check strips have been in the marketplace for just a few years, typically distributed at faculties, universities and inside the U.S. navy neighborhood.
State Meeting member Jowsh Lowenthal of Lengthy Seaside – who owns three eating places – launched the invoice to forestall sexual assault, in accordance with native FOX 2 KTVU.
“We’ve a disaster that’s going down that’s leading to sexual assault, that’s concentrating on primarily girls and members of the LGBTQ communities,” Lowenthal mentioned in a video presentation to the meeting. He’s a father to 3 daughters and mentioned the crime is underreported.
“By the use of instance, I’ve members of my workers which were roofied, members of the legislative physique which were roofied,” he mentioned.
California is the primary state within the nation to enact such a regulation.
