HB2025 S JUD AMT  4-6

Graham  7883

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

Eng. House Bill 2025—H. B. 2025 -- A Bill to amend and reenact §7-1-3ss of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, to amend and reenact §11-16-3, §11-16-9, and §11-16-18 of said code; to amend said code by adding thereto four new sections, designated §11-16-6d, §11-16-6e, §11-16-6f and §11-16-11c; to amend said code by adding thereto two new sections, designated §19-2-12 and §19-2-13; to amend and reenact §60-1-5a of said code; to amend said code by adding thereto a new section, designated §60-3A-3b; to amend and reenact §60-4-3a and §60-4-3b of said code; to amend said code by adding thereto a new section, designated §60-4-3c; to amend and reenact §60-6-8 of said code; to amend and reenact §60-7-2, §60-7-6, and §60-7-12 of said code; to amend said code by adding thereto five new sections, designated §60-7-8b, §60-7-8c, §60-7-8d, §60-7-8e, and §60-7-8f; to amend and reenact §60-8-2, §60-8-3, §60-8-4, §60-8-18, §60-8-20, §60-8-29 and §60-8-34 of said code; to amend said code by adding thereto five new sections, designated §60-8-6c, §60-8-6d, §60-8-6e, §60-8-6f  and §60-8-32a; to amend said code by adding thereto a new article, designated §60-8A-1, §60-8A-2, §60-8A-3, §60-8A-4, §60-8A-5, and §60-8A-6; and to amend and reenact §61-8-27 of said code, all relating to nonintoxicating beer, nonintoxicating craft beer, liquor, wine, and hard cider sales in this state; providing for changing the beginning time for nonintoxicating beer, nonintoxicating craft beer, liquor, and wine sales to begin at 6:00 a.m. on all days for on and off premises licensees; authorizing Class A and Class B retailers and third parties to obtain a license to deliver nonintoxicating beer and nonintoxicating craft beer; allowing the sale, ordering, and delivery of nonintoxicating beer and nonintoxicating craft beer by a telephone, mobile ordering application or web-based software program; setting forth sale, delivery and telephone, mobile ordering application or web-based software program requirements; providing for enforcement; exempting certain licensees from an additional licensing fee, and establishing a license fee for third parties, and requiring a nonintoxicating beer retail transportation permit for delivery vehicles; establishing a nonintoxicating beer and nonintoxicating craft beer direct shippers license to allow shipping in state and out of state; providing license requirements, shipping requirements, limitations, and fees; requiring the payment of fees and taxes, the maintenance of records and the preparation of reports; providing for penalties, criminal penalties, and jurisdiction; authorizing Class A and Class B licensees to sell and deliver sealed nonintoxicating beer and nonintoxicating craft beer for consumption off the premises if certain conditions are met; providing certain licensees with the authority to sell, serve, and furnish nonintoxicating beer and nonintoxicating craft beer in approved outdoor dining areas, and outdoor street dining areas if certain requirements are met; defining terms; authorizing in-person or in-vehicle pick up of purchased food or meals and nonintoxicating beer or nonintoxicating craft beer orders-to-go; creating an unlicensed brewer or home brewer temporary special license for providing samples at licensed fairs and festivals, specifying requirements,  setting a license fee and requiring a nonintoxicating beer or nonintoxicating craft beer transportation permit; reducing the fee for a nonintoxicating beer or nonintoxicating craft beer floorplan extension;  permitting licensees to employ persons 16 years of age in sale and service of liquor, beer, and wine  when supervised by an employee who is 21 years of age or older; establishing the Agriculture Development Fund to fund the hard cider development program created to foster the development and growth of the hard cider industry in this state; creating a private liquor delivery license for retail liquor outlets and third parties with sale and delivery requirements; establishing a private liquor bottle delivery permit; authorizing retail liquor outlets to sell sealed bottles of liquor through a window in a drive-up or drive-through; creating a private manufacturer club license for distilleries, mini-distilleries, micro-distilleries, wineries, and farm wineries, setting forth requirements, and providing for a license fee; authorizing distilleries, mini-distilleries, and micro-distilleries to also operate wineries, farm wineries, brewers, and resident brewers; authorizing wineries and farm wineries to operate and be licensed as distilleries, mini-distilleries, micro-distilleries, to operate and be licensed as wineries, farm wineries, brewery, or as resident brewers; removing prohibition against a single person having more than one winery or farm winery license or both a winery and farm winery license; declaring that agricultural use designation is unchanged for building code and property tax classification upon opening any type of distillery or winery; establishing a private direct shippers license to allow distilleries, mini-distilleries and micro-distilleries to ship liquor in state

and out of state; providing license requirements, shipping requirements, limitations, and fees; authorizing the ability to pre-mix alcoholic liquors, establishing certain requirements, and creating a permit; creating a private direct shipper license, setting forth requirements and providing for a license fee; creating private caterer license, a private club bar license, a private club restaurant license, a private manufacturer club license, a private farmers market license, a private multi-sport complex license. a private tennis club license, a private professional sports stadium license, a private wedding venue or barn license, a one-day charitable rare, antique, or vintage liquor auction license for charitable purposes, and a private multi-vendor fair and festival license and setting forth requirements and providing for license fees; reducing license fees for two years due to Covid -19 pandemic; creating private outdoor dining and private outdoor street dining areas as legally demarcated areas that are not a public place where a private club licensee may sell and furnish alcoholic liquors; authorizing and creating craft cocktail growlers and setting forth requirements and limitations, and exempting certain licenses from a license fee; creating a private cocktail delivery license for licensed private club restaurants, private manufacturer clubs and third parties, setting forth requirements, including specific requirements for craft cocktail growlers, specifying limitations, and requiring a private cocktail delivery permit for delivery vehicles; authorizing in-person or in-vehicle pick up of purchased food or a meal and craft cocktail growler orders-to-go; providing for wine definitions to clarify various aspects of wine, including the alcohol by volume percentage for table wine, wine, and fortified wine; removing restriction on number of one-day licenses which may be issued in a single year to a nonprofit to sell and serve wine and requiring applicant to file state regarding gross proceeds; clarifying penalties for failure to meet wine licensure requirements; replacing wine bond requirements that secure the payment of taxes by distributors, suppliers, certain wineries, and certain farm wineries, who are acting as either suppliers or distributors in a limited capacity, with an affidavit of compliance; providing penalties for failure to pay taxes and maintain good standing with the state; authorizing wineries and farm wineries to sell wine growlers and provide samples and establishing requirements and limitations; authorizing certain Class A and Class B licensees to sell sealed wine and wine growlers, and setting forth requirements and limitations; authorizing legislative rules; creating a private wine delivery license for Class A wine licensees and third parties, setting forth requirements and limitations, providing fees for certain licensees; creating a private wine retail transportation permit, setting forth requirements, and requiring no additional fee; creating private wine outdoor dining and private wine outdoor street dining areas as legally demarcated areas that are not a public place where wine may be sold and furnished; authorizing in-person or in-vehicle pick up of purchased food or a meal and wine orders-to-go; defining the term “hard cider” ;providing that there is no separate license required to manufacture and sell hard cider under certain conditions; providing for a hard cider distributor’s license and its fee and permitting other current and valid licensees to distribute hard cider without an additional license fee; providing for hard cider exemptions to the wine liter tax; establishing a hard cider gallon tax; providing for the application of West Virginia Tax Procedures and Administration Act and West Virginia Tax Crimes and Penalties Act to the hard cider gallon tax; providing for an internal effective date; providing for a tax credit against the hard cider tax;  providing for applicability of other laws; requiring the filing of regular reports to the Tax Commissioner; providing for applications to import products necessary to manufacture hard cider under certain conditions; providing for hard cider sales for consumption on the licensed premises; providing for complimentary samples to be offered; establishing requirements for complimentary samples; permitting the sale of wine growlers; setting forth wine growler requirements, and providing a license fee; and providing additional exceptions to the criminal penalty for the unlawful admission of children to dance house for certain private clubs with approved age verifications systems.  

Adopted

Rejected