BILL · 2019–20 SESSION

HB 1118: Beer & wine license/spirits

Allowing certain beer and wine license holders to sell small amounts of spirits.

Summary

Authorizes the Liquor and Cannabis Board to approve grocery store license holders, who lack a spirits retail license, to sell spirits in original containers that are 375 milliliters or smaller, subject to restrictions.
Requires spirits sold under this new authorization to be kept behind a counter or in a locked display case.
Applies a fee equivalent to 17 percent of all spirits sales revenues to sales of spirits by approved grocery stores.
Removes the limitation that a contract liquor store must be at its contract location to qualify for a spirits retail license.

From the House Bill Analysis 2019 (HB 1118), written by the Legislature's nonpartisan staff. Read the full report ↗

Did not pass Did not pass · died in committee

AN ACT Relating to allowing certain beer and wine license holders to sell small amounts of spirits;

No recorded floor votes. This measure never reached a floor vote.

Bill numbers restart every two years, so the same number is a different bill in each session.

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HB 1118 (2015–16) Fish & wildlife cost savings · Did not pass · passed House, stalled in Senate
HB 1118 (2013–14) Interst. family support act · Did not pass · passed House, stalled in Senate
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HB 1118 (2009–10) Signs on closed public lands · Did not pass · died in committee