Allowing beer and/or wine specialty shop licensees to sell products made by distillers that produce sixty thousand gallons or less of spirits per year.
Summary
Authorizes the Liquor Control Board (LCB) to issue to a beer and/or wine specialty shop (shop) meeting specified criteria an endorsement to sell spirits produced by a distiller producing 60,000 or less of spirits per year.
Requires a shop whose license includes an endorsement to sell spirits to pay the LCB a license issuance fee equal to 17 percent of all spirit sales revenues.
Requires that the employees of a shop who participate in or manage the sale of spirits obtain training regarding compliance with laws and regulations pertaining to spirits sales and that such training be renewed every 5 years.
Authorizes the LCB to double the maximum penalties, fines, and suspensions that may be imposed on a licensee with respect to violations relating to the sale of spirits.
From the Engrossed Substitute House Bill Analysis 2014 (ESSB 5731), written by the Legislature's nonpartisan staff. Read the full report ↗
Did not passDid not pass · passed Senate, stalled in House
AN ACT Relating to allowing beer and/or wine specialty shop licensees to sell products made by distillers that produce sixty thousand gallons or less of spirits per year;