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2012 SESSION
Chairman: Frank W. Wagner
Date of Meeting: January 20, 2012
Time and Place: Senate Room B, 8:30 a.m.
Updated to add SB 575
Patron: Edwards
Barrier crimes; listing of crimes. Clarifies the individual crimes included in the background check and barrier crime statutes affecting the Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services, certain licensees of the Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services, the Department of Social Services, and certain licensees of the Department of Social Services.
Patron: Locke
Alcoholic beverage control; local ordinance; recycling for certain retail on-premises licensees. Authorizes any locality to adopt an ordinance requiring any retail on-premises wine and beer licensee to separate, store, and provide for the collection for recycling of all glass alcoholic beverage containers sold by the licensee.
Patron: Deeds
Alcoholic beverage control; agents of Alcoholic Beverage Control Board. Authorizes the appointment of a distillery licensee that is employing traditional distilling techniques, including the use of authentic copper pot stills to blend or produce spirits in any county with a population of less than 20,000 (Virginia Distillery Company in Nelson County) as an agent of the ABC Board.
Patron: Hanger
Alcoholic beverage control; advertising by manufacturers and wholesalers, including wineries and farm wineries. Preserves the current provisions for outdoor advertising of alcoholic beverages by manufacturers and wholesalers, including wineries and farm wineries, that are set to expire January 1, 2013. The bill also authorizes the ABC Board to grant a variance from these current requirements for good cause shown.
Patron: Hanger
ABC; unlawful possession. Clarifies that ABC underage buyers acting for law enforcement may purchase alcohol in the performance of their duties.
Patron: Hanger
Alcoholic beverage control; outdoor advertising. Provides that all outdoor alcoholic beverage signs and advertising by ABC licensees shall comply with the provisions of outdoor advertising in sight of highways, laws and regulations adopted by the Commonwealth Transportation Board pursuant thereto, and the Integrated Directional Sign Program administered by the Virginia Department of Transportation or its agents.
Patron: Wagner
Alcoholic beverage control; managers of licensed retail establishments. Requires managers of licensed retail establishments to be U.S. citizens or legally present in the United States.
Patron: Wagner
Alcoholic beverage control; mixed beverage license for certain motor sports facilities. Creates an annual mixed beverage motor sports facility license for persons operating concessions at an outdoor motor sports facility that hosts a NASCAR national touring race. The bill sets out the privileges of the license and the state and local license taxes.
Patron: Stuart
Alcoholic beverage control; transfers of wine or beer. Allows a retail off-premises or on-and-off-premises licensee to transfer any wine or beer from one licensed place of business to another licensed place of business under certain circumstances.