New laws to decriminalise public intoxication have been introduced to Victorian parliament on Tuesday.
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The state government says the provisions of the bill will come into effect in two years, to allow for the development, trial and implementation of a health-based response to public drunkenness.
The government committed to abolishing the offence of public drunkenness ahead of an inquest into the death of Yorta Yorta woman Tanya Day.
Ms Day, a 55-year-old Echuca resident, died from injuries sustained in a Castlemaine police cell after she was taken off a train in December 2017.
Coroner Caitlin English recommended the public drunkenness offence be repealed.
It was also a key recommendation of the 1991 Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody.