Florida Senate - 2018 COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
Bill No. CS for CS for SB 296
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LEGISLATIVE ACTION
Senate . House
Comm: WD .
01/23/2018 .
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The Committee on Regulated Industries (Steube) recommended the
following:
1 Senate Amendment (with title amendment)
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3 Delete lines 66 - 114
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5 authorized only on private property owned or leased by the
6 distillery which is contiguous to the licensed distillery
7 premises and at one other approved sales room located in the
8 same county as the distillery’s production building, which shall
9 be considered an extension of the craft distillery’s licensed
10 premises in this state and included on the sketch or diagram
11 defining the licensed premises submitted with the distillery’s
12 license application. All sketch or diagram revisions by the
13 distillery shall require local zoning approval and the
14 division’s approval verifying that the souvenir gift shop
15 location and all areas used and operated by the licensed
16 distillery are is owned or leased by the distillery and on
17 property contiguous to the distillery’s production building in
18 this state or within the extended licensed premises.
19 1. A craft distillery may not sell any factory-sealed
20 individual containers of spirits except in face-to-face sales
21 transactions at the distillery’s licensed premises with
22 consumers who are making a purchase of no more than six
23 individual containers of each branded product.
24 2. Each container sold in face-to-face transactions with
25 consumers must comply with the container limits in s. 565.10,
26 per calendar year for the consumer’s personal use and not for
27 resale and who are present at the distillery’s licensed premises
28 in this state.
29 3. A craft distillery must report to the division within 5
30 days after it reaches the production limitations provided in
31 paragraph (1)(b). Any retail sales to consumers at the craft
32 distillery’s licensed premises are prohibited beginning the day
33 after it reaches the production limitation.
34 4. A craft distillery may not ship or arrange to ship any
35 of its distilled spirits to consumers and may sell and deliver
36 only to consumers within the state in a face-to-face transaction
37 at the distillery property. However, a craft distiller licensed
38 under this section may ship, arrange to ship, or deliver such
39 spirits to manufacturers of distilled spirits, wholesale
40 distributors of distilled spirits, state or federal bonded
41 warehouses, and exporters.
42 5. Except as provided in subparagraph 6., it is unlawful to
43 transfer a distillery license for a distillery that produces
44 250,000 75,000 or fewer gallons per calendar year of distilled
45 spirits on its premises or any ownership interest in such
46 license to an individual or entity that has a direct or indirect
47 ownership interest in any distillery licensed in this state;
48 another state, territory, or country; or by the United States
49 government to manufacture, blend, or rectify distilled spirits
50 for beverage purposes.
51 6. A craft distillery shall not have its ownership
52 affiliated with another distillery, unless such distillery
53 produces 250,000 75,000 or fewer gallons per calendar year of
54 distilled spirits on each of its premises in this state or in
55 another state, territory, or country.
56 7. A craft distillery may transfer up to 75,000 gallons per
57 calendar year of distilled spirits it manufactures from its
58 federal bonded space, nonbonded space at its licensed premises,
59 or storage areas to its souvenir gift shop and additional sales
60 room.
61 8. A craft distillery may include a sales room location
62 authorized by this subsection on its original license
63 application or by an amendment to its license application on
64 forms prescribed by the division.
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67 And the title is amended as follows:
68 Delete lines 12 - 19
69 and insert:
70 distillery to consumers; requiring that sketch or
71 diagram revisions by the craft distillery receive
72 local zoning approval; providing that it is unlawful
73 to transfer a distillery license, or ownership in a
74 distillery license, for certain distilleries to
75 certain individuals or entities; prohibiting a craft
76 distillery from having its ownership affiliated with
77 certain other distilleries; authorizing a craft
78 distillery to transfer distilled spirits from certain
79 locations to its souvenir gift shop and additional
80 sales room; authorizing a craft distillery to include
81 a sales room location on its original license
82 application or by an amendment to its license
83 application; providing an