חוק המאבק בתופעת השכרות (הוראת שעה ותיקון חקיקה) (תיקון), התשע"ג-2013Law on Combating the Phenomenon of Drunkenness (temporary provision and legislative amendments) (Amendment), 2013 · automatic translation · suggest a correction

What the sponsors propose

The Bill seeks to make permanent two temporary provisions concerning the fight against the phenomenon of drunkenness: the Law on the Fight Against Drunkenness (Temporary Provision and Legislative Amendment), 2010, and the Business Licensing Law (Amendment No. 26 - Temporary Provision), 2010. According to the sponsors, after examining the implementation of the arrangements, it was found that the mechanisms established therein are efficient and effective in dealing with the phenomenon of drunkenness and its damages, and that there has been a steady increase in the ability to deal with the phenomenon, as evidenced by data from the Israel Police, the National Authority for the War on Drugs and Alcohol, and the Ministry of Education. In addition, several additional legislative amendments are proposed, including clarifying the application of a presumption set forth in Section 3 of the law and canceling the minimum fine set forth in Section 14b(b) of the Business Licensing Law, according to the sponsors in order to increase the scope of enforcement by local authorities.

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An automatic summary of the explanatory notes written by the bill's sponsors. These are their arguments, not an official Knesset summary. · The bill on the Knesset website

What was said in the plenum

The law seeks to make permanent two temporary provisions enacted in 2010 as part of the fight against drunkenness: police authority to confiscate and destroy alcoholic beverages in public places at night, and a ban on the sale and serving of alcohol at night, along with an annual reporting requirement to the Knesset on the law's implementation and cancellation of the minimum fine. The debate concerns whether this is an effective and necessary tool against the damage and violence caused by alcohol, or an unjustified and ineffective infringement on the personal freedom of law-abiding adults.

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An automatic summary of the plenum transcripts: the debate on the bill at every reading it was voted on. Arguments are given as the speakers made them; this is not an assessment. The list of speakers comes from the transcript, without a model. Transcripts of the sittings: 1, 2

Reservations to the second reading

3 reservations were filed: proposed changes to the text the committee brought to the second and third reading.

The reservations submitted by the Meretz group are intended to tighten the conditions of the definition of an intoxicating beverage, to add registration requirements regarding the handling of containers, and to extend the restricted hours for alcohol sales until midnight.

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By faction

• Meretz opposition · 3 reservations · 6 members

A joint reservation counts for every faction whose members filed it.

Proposers and reservation numbers are extracted automatically from the committee version, and the count is checked against the numbers printed in it. The descriptions are an automatic summary. The reservation numbers in this document cannot be read as text, so the count was not checked against it automatically. Committee version for the second and third reading (PDF)