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2007 SESSION

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SB 1413 Alcoholic beverage control; creates new restricted wholesale wine license.

Introduced by: Emmett W. Hanger, Jr. | all patrons    ...    notes | add to my profiles | history

SUMMARY AS PASSED:

Alcoholic beverage control; wholesale wine license.  Creates a new restricted wholesale wine license that authorizes the licensee to provide wholesale wine distribution services to winery and farm winery licensees, provided that no more than 3,000 cases of wine produced by a winery or farm winery licensee shall be distributed by the corporation in any one year. The bill requires the Commissioner of the Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services to form a nonprofit nonstock corporation that will hold this new license to promote, develop, and sustain markets for licensed Virginia wineries and farm wineries. The bill also allows certain licensees to deliver or ship beer or wine from one or more premises identified in the license. The bill sets the state license tax for this new license and requires the ABC Board to adopt emergency regulations to implement the provisions of the bill.  The bill contains an emergency clause and incorporates SB 1164 (Bell).  This bill is identical to HB2450.

SUMMARY AS PASSED SENATE:

Alcoholic beverage control; wholesale wine license.  Creates a new restricted wholesale wine license that authorizes the licensee to provide wholesale wine distribution services to winery and farm winery licensees, provided that no more than 3,000 cases of wine produced by a winery or farm winery licensee shall be distributed by the corporation in any one year. The bill requires the Commissioner of the Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services to form a nonprofit nonstock corporation that will hold this new license to promote, develop, and sustain markets for licensed Virginia wineries and farm wineries. The bill also allows certain licensees to deliver or ship beer or wine from one or more premises identified in the license. The bill sets the state license tax for this new license and requires the ABC Board to adopt emergency regulations to implement the provisions of the bill.  The bill contains an emergency clause and incorporates SB 1164 (Bell).

SUMMARY AS INTRODUCED:

Alcoholic beverage control; wine distribution licenses.  Authorizes the Commissioner of Agriculture and Consumer Services to establish a nonprofit, nonstock corporation to obtain a license from the Alcoholic Beverage Control Board to provide wine distribution services to licensed Class A farm wineries whose total production is 3,000 cases or less. The bill sets out the conditions for the license.