HB2479 S JUD AMT

Leah Macia 357-4483

            The Committee on the Judiciary moved to amend the bill by striking out the title and substituting therefor a new title, to read as follows:

            Eng. House Bill No. 2479--A Bill to amend and reenact §11-16-3, §11-16-6, §11-16-9, §11-16-12, and §11-16-18 the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended; and to amend said code by adding thereto three new sections, designated §11-16-6a and §11-16-6b; to amend and reenact §60-3A-17; to amend and reenact §60-4-3, §60-4-3a and §60-4-3b; to amend and reenact §60-6-10 and §60-7-12; to amend and reenact §60-8-34, of said code, all relating to the sale of alcoholic beverages; amending definitions relating to non-intoxicating beer; providing legislative findings regarding brewing, manufacturing, distribution, sale, consumption, transportation and storage of nonintoxicating beer and nonintoxicating craft beer; authorizing licensed brewers and resident brewers to offer complimentary nonintoxicating beer and nonintoxicating craft beer samples; authorizing licensed brewers and resident brewers to sell growlers with limitations; authorizing licensed brewpubs, Class A retail dealers, Class B retail dealers, private clubs, Class A retail licensees and Class B retail licensees to sell growlers with limitations; clarifying licensing and operational requirements for brewers, resident brewers and brewpubs; changing the license fee schedule for certain brewers and resident brewers; decreasing the license fee for brewpubs; requiring brewers and resident brewers to submit annual reports of production; removing brewpub bonding requirements; allowing the sale of nonintoxicating beer or coolers beginning at ten o’clock a.m. on Sundays; providing that the commissioner of the West Virginia Alcohol Beverage Control Administration shall obtain, if possible, any liquor requested by those permitted to manufacture sell liquor pursuant to section three, article four, chapter sixty of this code; adding section three-a, article four, chapter sixty of this code to the list of statutes under which the holder of a distillery or mini-distillery license may sell alcoholic liquors; lowering the wholesale markup percentage and the bailment fee that distilleries and mini-distilleries must pay to the commissioner of the West Virginia Alcoholic Beverage Control Administration on liquor sales from the distillery or mini-distillery for off-premises consumption; providing that no liquor sold by a distillery or mini-distillery may be priced less than the price set by the commissioner of the West Virginia Alcoholic Beverage Control Administration; providing that the maximum amount of market zone payments that a distillery or mini-distillery shall pay to the commissioner of the West Virginia Alcoholic Beverage Control Administration shall be capped at fifteen thousand dollars per annum; providing that licensed distilleries, mini-distilleries, wineries, and farm wineries may serve complimentary samples and make retail sales for off-premises consumption of their products beginning at ten o’clock a.m. on Sundays; clarifying that the authority granted to the commissioner of the West Virginia Alcohol Beverage Control Administration does not restrict the authority of state or local law-enforcement officers to enforce the underage drinking laws; permitting retailers, farm wineries, wine specialty shop retailers, private wine bed and breakfasts, private wine restaurants and private wine spa licensees to sell or deliver wine beginning at ten o’clock a.m. on Sundays.

Adopted

Rejected