Florida Senate - 2016                        COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
       Bill No. CS for SB 698
       
       
       
       
       
       
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                  02/04/2016           .                                
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       The Committee on Fiscal Policy (Bradley) recommended the
       following:
       
    1         Senate Amendment (with title amendment)
    2  
    3         Between lines 377 and 378
    4  insert:
    5         Section 9. Section 565.04, Florida Statutes, is amended to
    6  read:
    7         565.04 Package store restrictions.—
    8         (1) Vendors licensed under s. 565.02(1)(a) shall not in
    9  said place of business sell, offer, or expose for sale any
   10  merchandise other than such beverages, and such places of
   11  business shall be devoted exclusively to such sales; provided,
   12  however, that such vendors shall be permitted to sell bitters,
   13  grenadine, nonalcoholic mixer-type beverages (not to include
   14  fruit juices produced outside this state), fruit juices produced
   15  in this state, home bar, and party supplies and equipment
   16  (including but not limited to glassware and party-type foods),
   17  miniatures of no alcoholic content, and tobacco products. Such
   18  places of business shall have no openings permitting direct
   19  access to any other building or room, except to a private office
   20  or storage room of the place of business from which patrons are
   21  excluded.
   22  	(2) Notwithstanding any other law, when delivering
   23  alcoholic beverages to a vendor licensed under s. 565.02(1)(a),
   24  a licensed distributor may transport the beverages through
   25  another premises owned in whole or in part by the vendor.
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   28  And the title is amended as follows:
   29         Delete line 49
   30  and insert:
   31         report; amending s. 565.04, F.S.; authorizing a
   32         licensed distributor to transport alcoholic beverages
   33         through certain premises under specified
   34         circumstances; providing an effective date.