Florida Senate - 2017 CS for SB 106
By the Committee on Regulated Industries; and Senator Flores
580-01212-17 2017106c1
1 A bill to be entitled
2 An act relating to vendors licensed under the Beverage
3 Law; amending s. 562.13, F.S.; revising applicability
4 to specify circumstances under which persons under the
5 age of 18 years who are employed in specified
6 businesses are excluded from certain employment
7 prohibitions; providing that failure to comply with a
8 restriction on monthly revenue from the sale of
9 alcoholic beverages is unlawful if a minor is employed
10 during a month that the restriction is exceeded;
11 amending s. 565.04, F.S.; limiting the package store
12 restrictions to vendors located within a certain
13 distance of a school; providing an exception for
14 current licenses with some restrictions; providing an
15 effective date.
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17 Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
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19 Section 1. Paragraph (c) of subsection (2) of section
20 562.13, Florida Statutes, is amended to read:
21 562.13 Employment of minors or certain other persons by
22 certain vendors prohibited; exceptions.—
23 (2) This section shall not apply to:
24 (c) Persons under the age of 18 years who are employed in a
25 retail drugstore drugstores, grocery store stores, department
26 store stores, florist shop florists, specialty gift shop shops,
27 or automobile service station whose license fees are specified
28 in s. 563.02(1), s. 564.02(1), or s. 565.02(1)(a), if such
29 vendor derives 30 percent or less of its monthly gross revenue
30 from sales of alcoholic beverages. This exception applies only
31 if the minor employees are supervised by a person 18 years of
32 age or older who verifies that any purchaser of alcoholic
33 beverages is 21 years of age or older and who approves the sale
34 of alcoholic beverages to such purchaser. Failure to comply with
35 the restriction on monthly revenue from the sale of alcoholic
36 beverages is unlawful if a person under the age of 18 years is
37 employed in the licensed premises during a month that the
38 restriction is exceeded stations which have obtained licenses to
39 sell beer or beer and wine, when such sales are made for
40 consumption off the premises.
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42 However, a minor to whom this subsection otherwise applies may
43 not be employed if the employment, whether as a professional
44 entertainer or otherwise, involves nudity, as defined in s.
45 847.001, on the part of the minor and such nudity is intended as
46 a form of adult entertainment.
47 Section 2. Subsection (1) of section 565.04, Florida
48 Statutes, is amended to read:
49 565.04 Package store restrictions.—
50 (1)(a) The division may not issue a license under s.
51 565.02(1)(a) for any location or business located within 1,000
52 feet of a public or private elementary school, middle school, or
53 secondary school.
54 (b) Notwithstanding paragraph (a), a vendor vendors
55 licensed under s. 565.02(1)(a) on or before June 30, 2017, for a
56 licensed premises located within 1,000 feet of a public or
57 private elementary school, middle school, or secondary school,
58 may maintain and renew the beverage license for that premises
59 but may shall not in said place of business sell, offer, or
60 expose for sale any merchandise other than such beverages, and
61 such place places of business shall be devoted exclusively to
62 such sales; provided, however, that such vendor vendors shall be
63 permitted to sell bitters, grenadine, nonalcoholic mixer-type
64 beverages (not to include fruit juices produced outside this
65 state), fruit juices produced in this state, home bar, and party
66 supplies and equipment (including but not limited to glassware
67 and party-type foods), miniatures of no alcoholic content, and
68 tobacco products. Such places of business shall have no openings
69 permitting direct access to any other building or room, except
70 to a private office or storage room of the place of business
71 from which patrons are excluded.
72 Section 3. This act shall take effect July 1, 2017.