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Senate Bill 11

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Last Action signed by Governor (Acts, ch. 80)
Title AN ACT relating to alcoholic beverages.
Bill Documents Bill
Impact Statements Corrections Impact
Fiscal Note
Local Mandate
Bill Request Number 399
Sponsors J. Schickel, D. Thayer, J. Adams, T. Buford, J. Carroll, P. Clark, M. McGarvey, D. Seum
Summary of Original Version Amend KRS 241.010 to define "bed and breakfast," "commercial quadricycle," and "discount in the usual course of business"; expand the definition of "alcoholic beverage" to include a powder or crystal containing alcohol; increase the annual production limit for small farm wineries from 50,000 gallons to 100,000 gallons; make a souvenir package a special package of Kentucky distilled spirits; create a new section of KRS Chapter 242 to allow a precinct-level local option election to authorize the sale of alcoholic beverages at a distillery; amend KRS 242.020 to require those who circulated a local option petition to bear the cost of the election if it is held on a day other than a primary or regular election day; amend KRS 242.030 to set the filing deadlines for a local option election held on a primary or regular election day; amend KRS 242.1241 to conduct a small farm winery local option election in the same manner as in KRS 242.020 to 242.120; create a new section of KRS Chapter 243 to establish and regulate authorized public consumption (APC) licenses for use with commercial quadricycles; set APC license qualifications, including a business office, general liability insurance of at least $2,000,000, and a local government permit; establish the standards for drivers and local ordinances for commercial quadricycles; allow patrons to bring their own unopened packaged alcoholic beverages in nonglass containers for personal consumption on the commercial quadricycle; limit patron consumption to times after boarding and while riding the commercial quadricycle; prohibit patrons from bringing open alcoholic beverages from a licensed retail premises onto the commercial quadricycle; forbid local APC fees from exceeding state APC fees; amend KRS 243.030 and 243.070 to establish state and local APC license fees and craft rectifier license fees; amend KRS 243.060 to designate state and local APC license fees; amend KRS 243.0305 to set maximum souvenir package sales of nine liters per customer per day; establish rules for distillery use of a sampling license or an NQ3 license; amend KRS 243.033 to allow a caterer to cater a private party or special event at a nonfederally bonded portion of a distillery; amend KRS 243.036 to apply a distilled spirits and wine auction license to malt beverages; include raffles as a part of the auction license; amend KRS 243.086 to permit an NQ3 retail drink license for a distiller or a bed and breakfast; limit bed and breakfast drink sales to paid overnight guests; amend KRS 243.090 to make most local alcohol licenses expire on the same date as the corresponding state license; prorate the cost of a local license in the first year to allow the local license to synchronize with the state license; amend KRS 243.120 to create Class A and Class B rectifier's licenses; tax and distribute distiller retail drink sales in the same manner as souvenir package sales; amend KRS 243.130, 243.155, and 243.157 to allow employees of distillers, rectifiers, wineries, small farm wineries, and microbreweries to sample their employer's products for purposes of education, quality control, and product development; enable small farm wineries to enter into "custom crush" agreements with one another; permit a small farm winery to sell its wine products that are unmarketable as wine to a distiller; allow a small farm winery to produce up to 1,000 gallons of brandy per year; mandate the use of 100% Kentucky products in the production of brandy or its fortified wine products; forbid the offer or sale of brandy as a stand-alone product; exclude brandy and fortified wine production from a small farm winery's wine production limit; authorize sampling and sale of fortified wine products at a small farm winery or off-premises retail site located in wet territory; limit fortified wine samples to two ounces per patron per day; direct a small farm winery to only fortify its wine products with brandy it manufactured; increase the annual production limit for microbreweries from 25,000 barrels to 50,000 barrels; authorize a microbrewery to sell its products by the drink or package at fairs, festivals, and similar events; create a new section of KRS Chapter 244 to forbid any person to possess, sell, offer for sale, or use any powdered or crystalline alcoholic beverage product; amend KRS 244.050 to authorize a quota retail package licensee to provide free and paid samples of distilled spirits or wine; amend KRS 244.085 to allow a person under 21 years of age to remain at a licensed APC premises; amend KRS 244.130 to enable a distiller to provide visitors with free production by-products or free nonalcoholic novelty items; amend KRS 244.240 to permit distillers, rectifiers, wineries, and wholesalers to give discounts in the usual course of business if the same discounts are offered to all licensees of the same license type buying similar quantities; amend KRS 242.022, 242.1242, 242.1244, 243.034, and 243.882 to conform; repeal KRS 243.892.
Index Headings of Original Version Fiscal Note - Alcoholic beverage control law, omnibus bill relating to
Local Mandate - Alcoholic beverage control law, omnibus bill relating to
Distilled Spirits - Alcoholic beverage control law, omnibus bill relating to
Elections and Voting - Alcohol local option elections, modifications and additions to
Fees - Authorized public consumption license and craft rectifier license, state and local license fees for
Licensing - Alcoholic beverage licensing, omnibus bill relating to
Malt Beverages - Alcoholic beverage control law, omnibus bill relating to
State Agencies - Alcoholic Beverage Control Department, powers and duties of
Traffic Safety - Authorized public consumption license for commercial quadricycles, creation and regulation of
Transportation - Authorized public consumption license for commercial quadricycles, creation and regulation of
Wines and Wineries - Alcoholic beverage control law, omnibus bill relating to
Corrections Impact - Alcoholic beverage control law, omnibus bill relating to
Proposed Amendments Senate Committee Substitute 1
Senate Floor Amendment 1
Senate Floor Amendment 2
House Committee Substitute 1
House Floor Amendment 1
House Floor Amendment 2
Votes Vote History

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01/06/16
  • introduced in Senate
01/07/16
  • to Licensing, Occupations, & Administrative Regulations (S)
01/12/16
  • reported favorably, 1st reading, to Calendar with Committee Substitute
  • floor amendment (1) filed to Committee Substitute
01/13/16
  • 2nd reading, to Rules
  • posted for passage in the Regular Orders of the Day for Thursday, January 14
  • floor amendment (2) filed to Committee Substitute
01/14/16
  • 3rd reading, passed 29-8 with Committee Substitute, floor amendments (1) and (2)
01/15/16
  • received in House
01/19/16
  • to Licensing & Occupations (H)
02/23/16
  • floor amendment (1) filed
03/11/16
  • posted in committee
03/18/16
  • floor amendment (1) withdrawn
03/22/16
  • taken from Licensing & Occupations (H)
  • 1st reading
  • returned to Licensing & Occupations (H)
03/24/16
  • reported favorably, 2nd reading, to Rules with Committee Substitute (1) as a Consent Bill
  • floor amendment (2) filed to Committee Substitute
03/25/16
  • posted for passage in the Regular Orders of the Day for Monday, March 28, 2016
03/28/16
  • 3rd reading, passed 76-20 with Committee Substitute (1) and floor amendment (2)
  • received in Senate
03/29/16
  • posted for passage for concurrence in House Committee Substitutes (1) floor amendment (2)
  • Senate concurred in House Committee Substitute (1) and floor amendment (2)
  • passed 31-6
  • enrolled, signed by each presiding officer
  • delivered to Governor
04/09/16
  • signed by Governor (Acts, ch. 80)

Proposed Amendments

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Amendment Senate Committee Substitute 1
Impact Statements Corrections Impact
Fiscal Note
Local Mandate
Summary Amend KRS 243.030, 243.060, and 243.070 to establish fees for Class A and Class B types of NQ3 retail drink licenses; reinstitute the original city fee for a Class A rectifier's license; amend KRS 243.0305 and 244.050 to exclude the sampling license privileges in each statute from those of the other statute; amend KRS 243.086 to designate a Class A NQ3 license for a distiller and a Class B NQ3 license for a private club, dining car, or bed and breakfast; amend KRS 243.130, 243.155, and 243.157 to allow the agent of an alcohol manufacturer to sample the products of that manufacturer for purposes of education, quality control, and product development.
Index Headings Fiscal Note - Alcoholic beverage control law, omnibus bill relating to
Local Mandate - Alcoholic beverage control law, omnibus bill relating to
Distilled Spirits - Alcoholic beverage control law, omnibus bill relating to
Elections and Voting - Alcohol local option elections, modifications and additions to
Fees - Authorized public consumption license and craft rectifier license, state and local license fees for
Licensing - Alcoholic beverage licensing, omnibus bill relating to
Malt Beverages - Alcoholic beverage control law, omnibus bill relating to
State Agencies - Alcoholic Beverage Control Department, powers and duties of
Traffic Safety - Authorized public consumption license for commercial quadricycles, creation and regulation of
Transportation - Authorized public consumption license for commercial quadricycles, creation and regulation of
Wines and Wineries - Alcoholic beverage control law, omnibus bill relating to
Corrections Impact - Alcoholic beverage control law, omnibus bill relating to

Amendment Senate Floor Amendment 1
Sponsor P. Hornback
Summary Amend KRS 241.010 to clarify that a distiller is permitted to sell a souvenir package produced or bottled at that distillery or produced or bottled at another of that distiller's licensed distilleries; amend KRS 244.130 to direct a distillery to provide free novelty items and free production by-products only to visitors who are 21 years of age or older.
Index Headings Fiscal Note - Alcoholic beverage control law, omnibus bill relating to
Local Mandate - Alcoholic beverage control law, omnibus bill relating to
Distilled Spirits - Alcoholic beverage control law, omnibus bill relating to
Elections and Voting - Alcohol local option elections, modifications and additions to
Fees - Authorized public consumption license and craft rectifier license, state and local license fees for
Licensing - Alcoholic beverage licensing, omnibus bill relating to
Malt Beverages - Alcoholic beverage control law, omnibus bill relating to
State Agencies - Alcoholic Beverage Control Department, powers and duties of
Traffic Safety - Authorized public consumption license for commercial quadricycles, creation and regulation of
Transportation - Authorized public consumption license for commercial quadricycles, creation and regulation of
Wines and Wineries - Alcoholic beverage control law, omnibus bill relating to
Corrections Impact - Alcoholic beverage control law, omnibus bill relating to

Amendment Senate Floor Amendment 2
Sponsor J. Schickel
Summary Preclude a small farm winery's production of fortified wine from counting towards its 100,000 annual gallon limit, instead of 50,000 gallons.
Index Headings Fiscal Note - Alcoholic beverage control law, omnibus bill relating to
Local Mandate - Alcoholic beverage control law, omnibus bill relating to
Distilled Spirits - Alcoholic beverage control law, omnibus bill relating to
Elections and Voting - Alcohol local option elections, modifications and additions to
Fees - Authorized public consumption license and craft rectifier license, state and local license fees for
Licensing - Alcoholic beverage licensing, omnibus bill relating to
Malt Beverages - Alcoholic beverage control law, omnibus bill relating to
State Agencies - Alcoholic Beverage Control Department, powers and duties of
Traffic Safety - Authorized public consumption license for commercial quadricycles, creation and regulation of
Transportation - Authorized public consumption license for commercial quadricycles, creation and regulation of
Wines and Wineries - Alcoholic beverage control law, omnibus bill relating to
Corrections Impact - Alcoholic beverage control law, omnibus bill relating to

Amendment House Committee Substitute 1
Impact Statements Corrections Impact
Local Mandate
Summary Retain original provisions, except create a new section of KRS Chapter 242 to allow a city or county that voted for alcoholic beverage sales at 100-seat restaurants to enact an ordinance allowing 50 seat restaurants; delete all changes relating to a local option election petitioner paying for the cost of the election; set maximum distillery souvenir package sales at 4.5 liters rather than 9 liters per customer per day; exclude a caterer from catering a private party or special event at a nonfederally bonded portion of a distillery; make one category of NQ3 licenses rather than Class A and Class B licenses; remove new language allowing employees of alcohol manufacturers to sample their employer's products for purposes of education, quality control, and product development; amend KRS 243.150 to authorize a brewer to sell malt beverages on its premises through "growlers" or a tap room; delete a small farm winery's ability to produce brandy and fortified wine, have a moist territory local option election on Sunday sales, and sell unmarketable wine products to distilleries; amend KRS 244.290 and 244.480 to allow cities and counties to enact an ordinance allowing Sunday sales of alcoholic beverages; amend KRS 243.884 to exempt a small farm winery from the wholesale tax only if the small farm winery produces no more than 50,000 gallons of wine per year; reduce the limit on distillery novelty items from $100 to $75; amend KRS 244.590 to permit a brewer or distributor to give, rent, loan, or sell a refrigerated cooler to a malt beverage retailer; create a new section of KRS Chapter 242 to allow a precinct-level local option election to authorize the sale of alcoholic beverages at a distillery; make the distillery local option election statute expire after three years; amend KRS 242.125 to enable a city of any size to determine its wet or dry status separately from its county's status.
Index Headings Fiscal Note - Alcoholic beverage control law, omnibus bill relating to
Local Mandate - Alcoholic beverage control law, omnibus bill relating to
Distilled Spirits - Alcoholic beverage control law, omnibus bill relating to
Elections and Voting - Alcohol local option elections, modifications and additions to
Fees - Authorized public consumption license and craft rectifier license, state and local license fees for
Licensing - Alcoholic beverage licensing, omnibus bill relating to
Malt Beverages - Alcoholic beverage control law, omnibus bill relating to
State Agencies - Alcoholic Beverage Control Department, powers and duties of
Traffic Safety - Authorized public consumption license for commercial quadricycles, creation and regulation of
Transportation - Authorized public consumption license for commercial quadricycles, creation and regulation of
Wines and Wineries - Alcoholic beverage control law, omnibus bill relating to
Corrections Impact - Alcoholic beverage control law, omnibus bill relating to

Amendment House Floor Amendment 1
Sponsor S. Santoro
Summary Amend KRS 242.125 to allow a city adjacent to a federal or state waterway to hold its own wet, dry, or moist local option election; make amendments to conform.
Index Headings Fiscal Note - Alcoholic beverage control law, omnibus bill relating to
Local Mandate - Alcoholic beverage control law, omnibus bill relating to
Distilled Spirits - Alcoholic beverage control law, omnibus bill relating to
Elections and Voting - Alcohol local option elections, modifications and additions to
Fees - Authorized public consumption license and craft rectifier license, state and local license fees for
Licensing - Alcoholic beverage licensing, omnibus bill relating to
Malt Beverages - Alcoholic beverage control law, omnibus bill relating to
State Agencies - Alcoholic Beverage Control Department, powers and duties of
Traffic Safety - Authorized public consumption license for commercial quadricycles, creation and regulation of
Transportation - Authorized public consumption license for commercial quadricycles, creation and regulation of
Wines and Wineries - Alcoholic beverage control law, omnibus bill relating to
Corrections Impact - Alcoholic beverage control law, omnibus bill relating to

Amendment House Floor Amendment 2
Sponsor L. Belcher
Summary Amend KRS 243.0305 and 243.120 to include references to a distillery local option election; clarify the maximum quantity of souvenir packages a distiller may sell per visitor per day.
Index Headings Fiscal Note - Alcoholic beverage control law, omnibus bill relating to
Local Mandate - Alcoholic beverage control law, omnibus bill relating to
Distilled Spirits - Alcoholic beverage control law, omnibus bill relating to
Elections and Voting - Alcohol local option elections, modifications and additions to
Fees - Authorized public consumption license and craft rectifier license, state and local license fees for
Licensing - Alcoholic beverage licensing, omnibus bill relating to
Malt Beverages - Alcoholic beverage control law, omnibus bill relating to
State Agencies - Alcoholic Beverage Control Department, powers and duties of
Traffic Safety - Authorized public consumption license for commercial quadricycles, creation and regulation of
Transportation - Authorized public consumption license for commercial quadricycles, creation and regulation of
Wines and Wineries - Alcoholic beverage control law, omnibus bill relating to
Corrections Impact - Alcoholic beverage control law, omnibus bill relating to

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