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1995 SESSION
HB 1843 Alcoholic beverage control; low alcohol beverage coolers.
Introduced by: Glenn R. Croshaw | all patrons ... notes | add to my profiles
SUMMARY:
Alcoholic beverage control; low alcohol beverage coolers. Adds low alcohol beverage coolers to the type of alcoholic beverage product which may be manufactured and sold. A “low alcohol beverage coller” is defined as a drink containing one-half of one percent or more of alcohol by volume, but not more than seven and one-half percent of alcohol by volume, and consisting of spirits mixed with non-alcoholic beverages or flavoring or coloring materials, and which may also contain water, fruit juices, fruit adjuncts, sugar, carbon dioxide, preservatives or other similar products manufactured by fermenting fruit or fruit juices, The bill provides that low alcohol beverage coolers shall be treated as wine for all purposes of Title 4.1 except that they may not be sold in localities that have not approved the sale of mixed beverages and may not be sold for on-premises consumption other than by mixed beverage licensees.
FULL TEXT
- 01/19/95 House: Presented & ordered printed LD6193180 pdf
- 01/31/95 House: Printed as engrossed LD6193180-E pdf
- 03/08/95 House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1843ER) pdf
- 04/03/95 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0661) pdf
AMENDMENTS
HISTORY
- 01/19/95 House: Presented & ordered printed LD6193180
- 01/19/95 House: Referred to Committee on General Laws
- 01/23/95 House: Assigned to General Laws sub-committee: 3
- 01/26/95 House: Reported from General Laws with amd. (22-Y 0-N)
- 01/27/95 House: Read first time
- 01/30/95 House: Passed by for the day
- 01/31/95 House: Read second time
- 01/31/95 House: Committee amendment agreed to
- 01/31/95 House: Engrossed by House as amended
- 01/31/95 House: Printed as engrossed LD6193180-E
- 02/01/95 House: Read third time and passed House (74-Y 23-N)
- 02/01/95 House: VOTE: PASSAGE (74-Y 23-N)
- 02/01/95 House: Communicated to Senate
- 02/02/95 Senate: Read first time
- 02/02/95 Senate: Referred to Committee on Rehabilitation and Social Services
- 02/17/95 Senate: Reported from R. & S. S. w/amendment (9-Y 6-N)
- 02/20/95 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N)
- 02/20/95 Senate: VOTE: CONST. READING DISPENSED (39-Y 0-N)
- 02/21/95 Senate: Passed by for the day
- 02/22/95 Senate: Read third time
- 02/22/95 Senate: Reading of amendment waived
- 02/22/95 Senate: Committee amendment agreed to
- 02/22/95 Senate: Motion to rerefer to committee rejected (20-Y 20-N)
- 02/22/95 Senate: VOTE: REREFER TO COMMITTEE (20-Y 20-N)
- 02/22/95 Senate: Chair voted nay
- 02/22/95 Senate: Motion to recommit to committee rejected (19-Y 21-N)
- 02/22/95 Senate: VOTE: RECOMMIT (19-Y 21-N)
- 02/22/95 Senate: Motion for pending question agreed to (36-Y 4-N)
- 02/22/95 Senate: VOTE: PENDING QUESTION (36-Y 4-N)
- 02/22/95 Senate: Floor amendment rejected (19-Y 21-N) (Nolen)
- 02/22/95 Senate: VOTE: FLOOR AMENDMENT (19-Y 21-N)
- 02/22/95 Senate: Floor amendment agreed to (25-Y 15-N) (Saslaw)
- 02/22/95 Senate: VOTE: FLOOR AMENDMENT (25-Y 15-N)
- 02/22/95 Senate: Engrossed by Senate as amended
- 02/22/95 Senate: Passed Senate with amendments (22-Y 18-N)
- 02/22/95 Senate: VOTE: PASSAGE (22-Y 18-N)
- 02/22/95 House: Placed on Calendar
- 02/23/95 House: Senate amendments agreed to by House (83-Y 13-N)
- 02/23/95 House: VOTE: ADOPTION (83-Y 13-N)
- 02/23/95 House: Title replaced
- 03/08/95 House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1843ER)
- 03/15/95 House: Enrolled
- 03/15/95 Senate: Signed by President
- 03/16/95 House: Signed by Speaker
- 03/25/95 Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 661 (effective 7/1/95)
- 04/03/95 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0661)