Bill Text: OR HB2150 | 2011 | Regular Session | Enrolled


Bill Title: Relating to alcoholic beverages.

Sponsorship: Unknown

Status: (Passed) 2011-05-27 - Chapter 143, (2011 Laws): Effective date January 1, 2012. [HB2150 Detail]

Download: Oregon-2011-HB2150-Enrolled.html


     76th OREGON LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY--2011 Regular Session

                            Enrolled

                         House Bill 2150

Introduced and printed pursuant to House Rule 12.00. Presession
  filed (at the request of Governor John A. Kitzhaber for Oregon
  Liquor Control Commission)

                     CHAPTER ................

                             AN ACT

Relating to alcoholic beverages; amending ORS 471.235.

Be It Enacted by the People of the State of Oregon:

  SECTION 1. ORS 471.235 is amended to read:
  471.235. (1) A wholesale malt beverage and wine license shall
allow the importation, storage, transportation, wholesale sale
and distribution to licensees of the Oregon Liquor Control
Commission, and the export of wine, cider and malt beverages, and
the importation and sale to the commission and the export of wine
of alcoholic content in excess of 21 percent alcohol by volume.
 { - No such licensee shall - }  { +  A wholesale malt beverage
and wine licensee may not + } sell any alcoholic liquor for
consumption upon the licensed premises. However, a wholesale malt
beverage and wine licensee may sell naturally fermented wine or
cider in quantities of not less than four gallons nor more than
55 gallons at any one time to consumers for consumption not on
the licensed premises.  Wholesale malt beverage and wine
licensees may sell malt beverages containing not more than
 { - eight - }  { +  nine + } percent alcohol by volume in
quantities not less than   { - five - }  { +  four + } gallons to
any unlicensed organization, lodge, picnic party or private
gathering.   { - Such malt beverages shall not be sold by such
unlicensed group. - }  { +  The unlicensed organization, lodge,
picnic party or private gathering may not sell the malt
beverages. + } A wholesale malt beverage and wine license shall
permit the licensee also to sell malt beverages at wholesale
only, to persons holding licenses authorizing   { - them - }
 { +  the persons + } to resell such beverages at retail.
Employees of wholesale malt beverage and wine licensees may serve
sample tastings of malt beverages, cider and wine at alcoholic
beverage industry trade shows, seminars and conventions and at
alcoholic beverage industry sample tastings for employees of
retail licensees.
  (2)   { - Nothing in - }  Subsection (1) of this section
 { - shall be considered to - }  { +  does not + } prohibit the
transportation or wholesale sale or distribution of malt beverage
or wine by a wholesale malt beverage and wine licensee to any
alcoholic treatment center licensed by the Oregon Health
Authority.
  (3) A wholesale malt beverage and wine licensee may impose an
additional handling fee on any wine sold to any retailer in this

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state if the quantity of wine sold to the retailer is less than
the smallest multiple-package case available to be sold and the
handling fee is uniform for all licensees.
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Passed by House April 14, 2011

    .............................................................
                         Ramona Kenady Line, Chief Clerk of House

    .............................................................
                                    Bruce Hanna, Speaker of House

    .............................................................
                                   Arnie Roblan, Speaker of House

Passed by Senate May 12, 2011

    .............................................................
                              Peter Courtney, President of Senate

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Received by Governor:

......M.,............., 2011

Approved:

......M.,............., 2011

    .............................................................
                                         John Kitzhaber, Governor

Filed in Office of Secretary of State:

......M.,............., 2011

    .............................................................
                                   Kate Brown, Secretary of State

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