SB712 HFA WEBSTER & STEMPLE AMT 3-08 #1


Delegates Webster and Stemple move to amend the title of the bill to read as follows:
Revised Com. Sub. for S. B. 712 -- "A bill to amend and reenact §11-10-5s of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended; to amend and reenact §17-22-7 of said code; to amend and reenact §60-1-5a of said code; to amend and reenact §60-3A-18 of said code; to amend and reenact §60-4-2, §60-4-3, §60-4-3a, §60-4-15 and §60- 4-22 of said code; to amend said code by adding thereto a new section, designated §60-4-3b; to amend and reenact §60-6-1 and §60- 6-2 of said code; to amend and reenact §60-8-1, §60-8-2, §60-8-3, §60-8-4, §60-8-5, §60-8-6, §60-8-7, §60-8-16, §60-8-18, §60-8-19, §60-8-20, §60-8-23, §60-8-24, §60-8-25, §60-8-26, §60-8-28, §60-8- 29, §60-8-30, §60-8-31, §60-8-32 and §60-8-34 of said code; and to amend said code by adding thereto a new section, designated §60-8- 6a, all relating to alcohol beverage regulation generally; the regulation of wine; requiring farm wineries to pay taxes and license fees, equalizing wineries with distilleries and farm wineries with mini-distilleries as to signage, licensing, license fees, sales and the use of suppliers and distributors; providing licensing procedure for wineries, farm wineries, suppliers or retailers to sell and direct ship wine for personal consumption by an adult over twenty-one years of age; providing licensing requirements and registration procedures for wine suppliers, subject to a review of all wine labels; amending the definition of "wine"; adding a private wine bed and breakfast license and a private wine spa license; permitting adult patrons at private wine bed and breakfasts, private wine restaurants, private wine spas and private clubs to recork or reseal, with a tamper resistant cork or seal, for off-premises consumption up to two bottles of unconsumed wine when the sale of wine is accompanied by food or a meal; extending hours retail licensees may sell liquor; permitting a private wine restaurant or a private club to sell from its inventory, for off-premises consumption, one bottle of wine per adult; equalizing certain license fees; adding protections for wineries, farm wineries, suppliers and distributors by requiring written agreements between the parties, a notice of termination and ninety days for a party to either deplete wine inventories or reach some other agreement; and permitting sharing of tax, licensing and enforcement information between the Tax Commissioner and the Alcohol Beverage Control Commissioner."

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