WEST virginia legislature

2019 regular session

Committee Substitute

for

House Bill 2481

By Delegates Steele, Foster, Kessinger, Pushkin, Barrett and Pyles

[Introduced January 17, 2019; Referred
to the Committee on the Judiciary.]

A BILL to amend and reenact §60-3A-18 of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, relating to permitting retail liquor licensees to sell certain alcoholic beverages after 1 p.m. on Sundays.

Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:

ARTICLE 3A. SALES BY RETAIL LIQUOR LICENSEES.

§60-3A-18. Days and hours retail licensees may sell liquor.

Retail licensees may not sell liquor on Sundays and Christmas day, or before 1 p.m. on Sundays, or between the hours of 12 midnight and eight o'clock a.m., except that wine and fortified wines may be sold on those days and at such times as authorized in §60-8-34 of this code.

NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to permit retail sale of alcoholic beverages on Sundays after 1 p.m.

Strike-throughs indicate language that would be stricken from a heading or the present law and underscoring indicates new language that would be added.