Bill Text: MI HB5347 | 2019-2020 | 100th Legislature | Chaptered

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Bill Title: Liquor; licenses; beer festivals special license requirements; modify. Amends sec. 526 of 1998 PA 58 (MCL 436.1526). TIE BAR WITH: HB 5348'19, HB 5351'19, HB 5344'19, HB 5355'19, HB 5350'19, HB 5343'19, HB 5346'19, HB 5354'19, HB 5353'19, HB 5342'19, HB 5345'19, HB 5400'19, HB 5341'19, HB 5352'19, HB 5349'19

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Passed) 2020-07-21 - Assigned Pa 111'20 With Immediate Effect [HB5347 Detail]

Download: Michigan-2019-HB5347-Chaptered.html

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Act No. 111

Public Acts of 2020

Approved by the Governor

July 1, 2020

Filed with the Secretary of State

July 1, 2020

EFFECTIVE DATE: July 1, 2020

 

 

state of michigan

100th Legislature

Regular session of 2020

Introduced by Reps. Garza, Cambensy, Hall and Wendzel

ENROLLED HOUSE BILL No. 5347

AN ACT to amend 1998 PA 58, entitled “An act to create a commission for the control of the alcoholic beverage traffic within this state, and to prescribe its powers, duties, and limitations; to provide for powers and duties for certain state departments and agencies; to impose certain taxes for certain purposes; to provide for the control of the alcoholic liquor traffic within this state and to provide for the power to establish state liquor stores; to prohibit the use of certain devices for the dispensing of alcoholic vapor; to provide for the care and treatment of alcoholics; to provide for the incorporation of farmer cooperative wineries and the granting of certain rights and privileges to those cooperatives; to provide for the licensing and taxation of activities regulated under this act and the disposition of the money received under this act; to prescribe liability for retail licensees under certain circumstances and to require security for that liability; to provide procedures, defenses, and remedies regarding violations of this act; to provide for the enforcement and to prescribe penalties for violations of this act; to provide for allocation of certain funds for certain purposes; to provide for the confiscation and disposition of property seized under this act; to provide referenda under certain circumstances; and to repeal acts and parts of acts,” by amending section 526 (MCL 436.1526), as added by 2008 PA 258.

The People of the State of Michigan enact:

Sec. 526. (1) The commission may issue a special license under this section to an organization conducting a beer festival. The application must conform to the following:

(a) Be submitted by a nonprofit entity composed primarily of brewers, micro brewers, and brewpubs, as determined by the commission.

(b) Involve an event having for its primary purpose the showcasing of beer and its production.

(c) Be accompanied by a fee of $25.00 per day of the event.

(2) The special license must not allow more than 6 events per calendar year conforming to the requirements of subsection (1). For purposes of this subsection, a beer festival that spans 2 or more consecutive days is considered 1 event.

(3) A holder of a special license issued under this section may buy a quantity of beer directly from any licensed brewpub or wholesaler or directly from a micro brewer eligible to self-distribute to the beer festival for consumption only at the licensed event.

(4) Beer that is dispensed to consumers for showcasing beer at a beer festival is considered a sample. A holder of a special license issued under this section may offer beer described in this subsection without consideration.

(5) A member, who is 18 years of age or older, of an organization that holds a special license issued under this section may serve beer at the event.

(6) As used in this section and section 413, “beer festival” means an event at which the various types and kinds of beer and the production of that beer are showcased to the general public and at which the general public can purchase and sample the beer being showcased for consumption on the licensed premises.

 

Enacting section 1. This amendatory act does not take effect unless all of the following bills of the 100th Legislature are enacted into law:

(a) House Bill No. 5341.

(b) House Bill No. 5342.

(c) House Bill No. 5343.

(d) House Bill No. 5344.

(e) House Bill No. 5345.

(f) House Bill No. 5346.

(g) House Bill No. 5348.

(h) House Bill No. 5349.

(i) House Bill No. 5350.

(j) House Bill No. 5351.

(k) House Bill No. 5352.

(l) House Bill No. 5353.

(m) House Bill No. 5354.

(n) House Bill No. 5355.

(o) House Bill No. 5400.

This act is ordered to take immediate effect.

 

Clerk of the House of Representatives

 

Secretary of the Senate

Approved___________________________________________

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Governor