SB 709

            
2020 SESSION

20104886D

SENATE BILL NO. 709


Offered January 8, 2020


Prefiled January 7, 2020

A BILL to direct the Virginia Alcoholic Beverage Control 
 Authority to convene a work group regarding tied house provisions; report.
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Patron-- McClellan

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Referred to Committee on Rules

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Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:
 
 
1. � 1. That the 
 Virginia Alcoholic Beverage Control Authority (the Authority) 
 shall convene a work group to study the tied house 
 provisions that prevent (i) a restaurant 
 licensed to sell alcoholic beverages at retail in 
 the Commonwealth that is under common control or ownership with a brewery, limited 
 brewery, winery, farm winery, distiller, or limited distiller licensee 
 from selling alcoholic beverages produced by such brewery, limited 
 brewery, winery, farm winery, distiller, or limited distiller licensee 
 and (ii) a licensee from employing a person 
 who is also employed by a licensee operating in a different 
 tier of the Commonwealths three-tier alcoholic 
 beverage control system. The work group shall (a) 
 determine whether such tied house provisions 
 remain justified by legitimate policy concerns and (b) 
 analyze whether exceptions should be created to such 
 tied house provisions and, if so, identify any possible ancillary 
 implications and any limitations that 
 should be placed on licensees invoking such exceptions. The 
 Authority shall report the findings and recommendations of the work group to 
 the Chairmen of the Senate Committee on Rehabilitation and Social 
 Services and the House Committee on General Laws by November 30, 2020.