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2012 SESSION
Chairman: Frank W. Wagner
Date of Meeting: February 10, 2012
Time and Place: 8:30 a.m., Senate Room B
Patron: Obenshain
Opportunities for work and career and technical education; child support. Requires the Department to withhold child support payments out of moneys paid to prisoners who maintain a job within the Department. Child support payments owed will also be withheld from any inmate trust account established for the prisoner.
Patron: Lucas
Conditional release of geriatric prisoners. Removes the petition requirement for the Parole Board to consider a geriatric release.
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
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: 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.
Patron: McWaters
Alcoholic beverage control; privileges of brewery licensees. Allows a brewery licensee to sell beer at retail at premises described in the brewery license for on-premises consumption and in closed containers for off-premises consumption. The bill also allows these licensees to offer samples of the brewery's products to individuals visiting the licensed premises, provided that such samples shall be provided only to individuals for consumption on the licensed premises and only to individuals to whom such products may be lawfully sold.
Patron: McEachin
Alcoholic beverage control; prohibited practice by retail wine and beer licensees; penalty. Provides that no retail off-premises wine and beer licensee shall sell any alcoholic beverage by means of a self-scanning cash register or other point-of-sale system. The bill defines "point-of-sale system" and provides that any person convicted of a violation is guilty of a Class 1 misdemeanor.