Legislature(2017 - 2018)BARNES 124
02/14/2018 03:15 PM House LABOR & COMMERCE
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HB 301-ALCOHOL LIC.: BEV DISPENSARY/RESTAURANT 3:42:37 PM CHAIR KITO announced that the final order of business would be HOUSE BILL NO. 301, "An Act relating to the renewal and transfer of ownership of a beverage dispensary license or restaurant or eating place license." 3:44:56 PM REPRESENTATIVE WOOL moved to adopt CS for HB 301 as the working document. 3:45:13 PM CHAIR KITO asked for a review of the changes in the committee substitute. REPRESENTATIVE WOOL gave an overview of the proposed bill and changes. He stated it would add language regarding how many hours beverage dispensary licensed premises must be open throughout the year. He said the requirement would change from 30 8-hour days to 240 total hours. He added that the list of types of licenses that communities could opt out of was expanded. 3:46:49 PM LAURA STIDOLPH, Staff, Representative Adam Wool, Alaska State Legislature, introduced the changes to HB 301. She restated that the committee substitute would capture a few more businesses that were not addressed in the previous version. 3:47:40 PM REPRESENTATIVE BIRCH asked for the total number of licenses. MS. STIDOLPH answered there were 30 under the pre-1985 status quo. She explained the changes to the original version of HB 301 [covered in the Sectional Analysis, below]. 3:49:28 PM REPRESENTATIVE JOSEPHSON asked for confirmation that the effect of the changes would be to prevent transferred licensees from having to expand their premises. MS. STIDOLPH answered in the affirmative. She went on to paraphrase the sectional analysis of version M of HB 301 [included in committee packet], which reads as follows [original punctuation provided]: Section 1 Amends AS 04.11.330(a) by changing the annual operating hours requirement for license holders from 30 eight-hour days to 240 hours. Section 2 - Amends 04.11.360 by adding language to ensure that an application may not be denied because a prospective transferee does not have qualifications required under AS 4.11.400(d)(1). Section 3 Amends AS 04.11.400(d) by adding language to allow for renewal or transfer of ownership of a tourism beverage dispensary license if the holder operates a hotel, motel, resort, or similar business in the tourist trade; has a licensed dining facility or kitchen facilities in a majority of its rental rooms and maintains the minimum number of rental rooms that it had at time of initial licensure or that were required at initial licensure. Also allows for premises inside an airport terminal. Section 4 - Amends AS 04.11.491(a) to add an outdoor recreation lodge license to the licenses that may be approved by voters in a municipality on a local option ballot. Section 5 Amends AS 04.11.491(b) to add an outdoor recreation lodge license to the licenses that may be approved by voters in an established village on a local option ballot. Section 6 Applicability - Section 4 & Section 5 apply to outdoor recreation lodge licenses issued before, on, or after the effective date of this Act. 3:53:07 PM REPRESENTATIVE JOSEPHSON asked whether the outdoor recreation lodge license already existed in statute. MS. STIDOLPH answered in the affirmative. She added the outdoor lodge license needed to be added to the list for local options. 3:53:49 PM REPRESENTATIVE KNOPP asked whether the director understood the intent of the bill and whether she thought the issue would be resolved for the 34 licensees who were currently in jeopardy. ERIKA McCONNELL, Director, Alcohol and Marijuana Control Office (AMCO), stated the intent was very clear and the issues for those licensees would be resolved. 3:54:45 PM REPRESENTATIVE JOSEPHSON asked whether the license holders of future roadhouses would have to adhere to the requirement for rooms under the demographic area for the unorganized boroughs. MS. McCONNELL answered that they would have to meet the rental rooms requirement for their population area. REPRESENTATIVE WOOL specified that the requirements were "new" since 1985. 3:56:03 PM CHAIR KITO removed his objection. CHAIR KITO stated that public testimony had remained open from a previous hearing. Upon ascertaining that no one was available to testify, he closed public testimony on HB 301. REPRESENTATIVE JOSEPHSON said he thought the changes constitute "a good fix." REPRESENTATIVE SULLIVAN-LEONARD acknowledged Representative Rauscher's contribution to the bill. 3:57:46 PM REPRESENTATIVE JOSEPHSON moved to report HB 301 out of committee with individual recommendations and the accompanying fiscal notes. There being no objection, it was so ordered.
Document Name | Date/Time | Subjects |
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HB299 Support Letters 2.1.18.pdf |
HL&C 2/14/2018 3:15:00 PM |
HB 299 |
HB299 Wool Amendment A.2 2.8.18.pdf |
HL&C 2/14/2018 3:15:00 PM |
HB 299 |
HB301 version M.pdf |
HL&C 2/14/2018 3:15:00 PM |
HB 301 |
HB301 Support Letters 2.12.18.pdf |
HL&C 2/14/2018 3:15:00 PM |
HB 301 |
HB301 ver M Sectional Analysis 2.12.18.pdf |
HL&C 2/14/2018 3:15:00 PM |
HB 301 |