West Virginia Senate Bill 473 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 5-3)
Status: Engrossed on February 27 2008 - 50% progression, died in committee
Action: 2008-02-28 - To House Judiciary
Pending: House Judiciary Committee

The purpose of this bill is to address Constitutional and other concerns left open after the passage of SB712 during the 2007 Regular Session. The bill sets application procedures for and restricts issuance of waivers of statutory raw product production quotas and import limitations for farm wineries; eliminates a restriction on donations to political party campaign funds by wholesalers' representatives and their spouses; licenses "brokers" as a separate class of wholesaler representative; combines sampling and tasting functions in the wine specialty shop license and increases the annual license fee; exempts a winery producing 20,000 gallons of wine or less annually from the liter tax; compresses direct shipper licensing requirements into a single section; limits direct shipping to wineries and farm wineries - suppliers and retailers deleted; requires consumers to pay sales/use tax on direct shipments of wine from wineries that have no minimum physical presence in WV; adopts language regarding disposition of tax income to satisfy the Auditor; and changes provisions relating to brand registration.

Relating to wine sales

Sen. Clark Barnes [R]	Del. Melvin Kessler [D]	Sen. Joseph Minard [D]	Sen. Michael Oliverio [D]
Sen. Dave Sypolt [R]	Del. Danny Wells [D]	Sen. Randy White [D]	Sen. John Yoder [R]

Date	Chamber	Action
2008-02-28		To House Judiciary
2008-02-28		To Judiciary then Finance
2008-02-28		Introduced in House
2008-02-27		Ordered to House
2008-02-27		Effective July 1, 2008 (Roll No. 16)
2008-02-27		Passed Senate (Roll No. 16)
2008-02-27		Read 3rd time
2008-02-27		On 3rd reading
2008-02-26		Floor amendment adopted (Voice vote)
2008-02-26		Read 2nd time
2008-02-26		On 2nd reading
2008-02-25		Read 1st time
2008-02-25		On 1st reading
2008-02-25		Immediate consideration
2008-02-25		Unanimous consent
2008-02-25		Committee substitute reported
2008-02-21		On second reading to Finance
2008-02-21		Read 1st time
2008-02-21		On 1st reading
2008-02-21		Immediate consideration
2008-02-21		Unanimous consent
2008-02-21		Reported do pass, with amendments, but first to Finance
2008-01-28		To Judiciary
2008-01-28		To Judiciary then Finance
2008-01-28		Introduced in Senate
2008-01-28		To Judiciary then Finance
2008-01-28		Filed for introduction

HB4168 (Same As) 2010-03-04 - To Finance

Type	Source
Summary	http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=473&year=2008&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill