Kentucky House Bill 6 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: Introduced on May 24 2010 - 25% progression, died in chamber
Action: 2010-05-28 - floor amendment (8) filed to Committee Substitute, floor amendment (7) filed
Text: Latest bill text (Draft #1) [MS Word]

Amend KRS 243.0305 to make the hours and days of operation for a souvenir retail liquor licensee subject to local ordinance; amend KRS 243.130, 243.154, and 243.170 to allow manufacturers, small farm winery wholesalers, and wholesalers to distribute wine or distilled spirits under a sampling license; amend KRS 244.050 to allow retail drink, retail package, and souvenir retail liquor licensees to give a customer 3 distilled spirit samples per day rather than 2 samples under a sampling license; permit a licensed distiller, wholesaler, small farm winery, or small farm winery wholesaler to acquire a sampling license; limit these sampling licensees to providing the standard size and number of complimentary samples of distilled spirits or wine per day to each customer during regular business hours at a retailer's licensed premises; authorize the sampling licensee or its agents, servants, or employees to address the customer and pour and serve samples at the retailer's premises; require retail licensees to sell the distilled spirits used for a complimentary sampling event at no more than the retail licensee's normal selling price; permit the retail licensee to bill on a per-event basis in the usual course of business; prohibit a distiller from using its sampling license on its distillery premises unless it also holds a souvenir retail liquor license; prohibit a wholesaler, small farm winery, or small farm winery wholesaler from using its sampling license at its business premises if the premises is located in a dry territory; preclude a distiller, wholesaler, small farm winery, or small farm winery wholesaler sampling licensee from concurrently holding a distilled spirits sampling event and a wine sampling event at the same premises unless the Department for Alcoholic Beverage Control has approved the event in advance; authorize distiller licensees to give a consumer who is touring the distillery for educational purposes one complimentary sample of up to 1/2 ounce of un-aged product manufactured at the distillery premises; enable distiller, wholesaler, small farm winery, or small farm winery wholesaler sampling licensees to offer consumers branded nonalcoholic promotional items of nominal value in conjunction with a distillery or winery tour or a complimentary sampling event; EMERGENCY.

AN ACT relating to promotional sampling of distilled spirits and wine and declaring an emergency.

Rep. Linda Belcher [D]

Rep. Susan Westrom [D]

Date	Chamber	Action
2010-05-28		floor amendment (8) filed to Committee Substitute, floor amendment (7) filed
2010-05-26		defeated 43-51
2010-05-26		floor amendment (1) adopted
2010-05-26		floor amendment (2) defeated
2010-05-26		floor amendment (4) ruled out of order
2010-05-26		3rd reading
2010-05-26		floor amendment (6) filed to Committee Substitute
2010-05-25		floor amendments (3) (4) and (5) filed to Committee Substitute
2010-05-25		floor amendments (1) and (2) filed
2010-05-25		placed in the Orders of the Day for Wednesday, May 26, 2010
2010-05-25		reported favorably, 2nd reading, to Rules with Committee Substitute
2010-05-24		posting waived
2010-05-24		returned to Licensing & Occupations (H)
2010-05-24		1st reading
2010-05-24		taken from Licensing & Occupations (H)
2010-05-24		to Licensing & Occupations (H)
2010-05-24		introduced in House

Type	Source
Summary	http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/10SS/HB6.htm
Text	http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/10SS/HB6/bill.doc