House Bill 1219 (2019) - The Florida Senate

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HB 1219: Beverage Law

GENERAL BILL by Sabatini ; (CO-INTRODUCERS) La Rosa ; Smith, D.

Beverage Law; Authorizes licensed vendor of alcoholic beverages to allow dogs in certain designated areas on their licensed premises; revises limitations on size of malt beverage containers; repeals provisions relating to limitations on size of individual wine containers; authorizes cider to be packaged, filled, refilled, or sold in growler; revises provisions that allow patrons to remove partially consumed bottles of wine from restaurant; specifies limitations on craft distillery's retail sales to consumers; removes provision that prohibits craft distillery from selling more than six individual containers of branded product to consumer; prohibits transfer distillery license or ownership in distillery license certain individuals or entities; prohibits craft distillery from having ownership affiliated with certain other distilleries.

Effective Date: 7/1/2019
Last Action: 5/3/2019 Senate - Died in Innovation, Industry, and Technology
Bill Text: PDF

Senate Committee References:

Innovation, Industry, and Technology (IT)
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Bill History

Date	Chamber	Action
3/1/2019	House	• Filed
3/5/2019	House	• Introduced -HJ 124
3/8/2019	House	• Referred to Business and Professions Subcommittee; Government Operations and Technology Appropriations Subcommittee; Commerce Committee -HJ 377 • On Committee agenda-- Business and Professions Subcommittee, 03/12/19, 12:30 pm, Webster Hall
3/12/2019	House	• Favorable by Business and Professions Subcommittee; YEAS 12 NAYS 0 -HJ 412
3/13/2019	House	• Now in Government Operations and Technology Appropriations Subcommittee -HJ 412
3/22/2019	House	• On Committee agenda-- Government Operations and Technology Appropriations Subcommittee, 03/26/19, 12:00 pm, Morris Hall
3/26/2019	House	• Favorable by Government Operations and Technology Appropriations Subcommittee; YEAS 9 NAYS 0 -HJ 521 • Now in Commerce Committee -HJ 521
4/8/2019	House	• On Committee agenda-- Commerce Committee, 04/10/19, 8:15 am, Webster Hall
4/10/2019	House	• Favorable by- Commerce Committee; YEAS 16 NAYS 7 -HJ 673 • Placed on Calendar -HJ 673
4/22/2019	House	• Placed on Special Order Calendar, 04/25/19
4/25/2019	House	• Read 2nd time -HJ 891 • Amendment(s) adopted (204789, 410225, 732827) -HJ 891, 896 • Read 3rd time -HJ 896 • Passed as amended; YEAS 71 NAYS 41 -HJ 896, 897
4/26/2019	Senate	• In Messages • Referred to Innovation, Industry, and Technology; Rules -SJ 580 • Received -SJ 579
5/3/2019	Senate	• Indefinitely postponed and withdrawn from consideration • Died in Innovation, Industry, and Technology

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HB 1219, Engrossed 1 (Current Bill Version) Posted 4/25/2019 at 10:45 PM

Bill Text:	PDF

Analyses:	None

Related Bills (7)

Bill Number	Subject	Filed By	Relationship	Last Action and Location
H 261	Beverage Law	Tomkow	Compare	Last Action: 5/3/2019 H Died on Calendar
H 907	Beverage Law	Toledo	Compare	Last Action: 3/1/2019 H Withdrawn prior to introduction -HJ 93
H 1229	Craft Distilleries	Raschein	Compare	Last Action: 5/3/2019 H Died on Calendar
H 6037	Individual Wine Containers	Perez	Compare	Last Action: 5/3/2019 S Died in Innovation, Industry, and Technology
S 220 (c1)	Beverage Law	Brandes	Compare	Last Action: 5/3/2019 S Died in Innovation, Industry, and Technology
S 242	Beverage Law	Hutson	Compare	Last Action: 5/3/2019 S Died in Innovation, Industry, and Technology
S 894	Individual Wine Containers	Stargel	Compare	Last Action: 5/3/2019 S Died in Innovation, Industry, and Technology

Citations - Statutes (12)

Citation	Catchline	Location in Bill Location In Bill Help
561.20	Limitation upon number of licenses issued.	Page 4 (pdf)
561.221	Licensing of manufacturers and distributors as vendors and of vendors as manufacturers; conditions and limitations.	Page 12 (pdf)
561.24	Licensing manufacturers as distributors or registered exporters prohibited; procedure for issuance and renewal of distributors’ licenses and exporters’ registrations.	Page 14 (pdf)
561.42	Tied house evil; financial aid and assistance to vendor by manufacturer, distributor, importer, primary American source of supply, brand owner or registrant, or any broker, sales agent, or sales person thereof, prohibited; procedure for enforcement;	Page 14 (pdf)
562.34	Containers; seizure and forfeiture.	Page 21 (pdf)
562.65		Page 22 (pdf)
563.06	Malt beverages; imprint on individual container; size of containers; exemptions.	Page 23 (pdf)
564.05	Limitation of size of individual wine containers; penalty.	Page 24 (pdf)
564.055	Cider containers.	Page 24 (pdf)
564.09	Restaurants; off-premises consumption of wine.	Page 25 (pdf)
565.03	License fees; manufacturers, distributors, brokers, sales agents, and importers of alcoholic beverages; vendor licenses and fees; distilleries and craft distilleries.	Page 26 (pdf)
565.17	Beverage tastings by distributors and vendors.	Page 30 (pdf)

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HB 1219, Original Filed Version Posted 3/1/2019 at 1:16 PM

Bill Text:	PDF

Analyses:	Business and Professions Subcommittee (Post-Meeting) 3/13/2019 (pdf) Government Operations and Technology Appropriations Subcommittee (Post-Meeting) 3/26/2019 (pdf) Commerce Committee (Post-Meeting) 4/10/2019 (pdf)

Related Bills (5)

Bill Number	Subject	Filed By	Relationship	Last Action and Location
H 907	Beverage Law	Toledo	Compare	Last Action: 3/1/2019 H Withdrawn prior to introduction -HJ 93
H 1229	Craft Distilleries	Raschein	Compare	Last Action: 5/3/2019 H Died on Calendar
H 6037	Individual Wine Containers	Perez	Compare	Last Action: 5/3/2019 S Died in Innovation, Industry, and Technology
S 220 (c1)	Beverage Law	Brandes	Compare	Last Action: 5/3/2019 S Died in Innovation, Industry, and Technology
S 894	Individual Wine Containers	Stargel	Compare	Last Action: 5/3/2019 S Died in Innovation, Industry, and Technology

Floor Amendments (6)

Amendment	Sponsor	Filed	Last Floor Action	Format
493431 - Amendment Remove lines 167-168 and insert:	Jenne	4/23/2019 3:51 PM	House: Withdrawn 4/24/2019	PDF
859311 - Amendment Remove lines 169-225 and insert:	Jenne	4/23/2019 4:00 PM	House: Withdrawn 4/24/2019	PDF
732827 - Strike All Amendment Remove everything after the enacting clause and insert:	Sabatini	4/23/2019 3:57 PM	House: Adopted as Amended 4/25/2019	PDF
204789 - Amendment to Amendment (732827) Between lines 4 and 5 of the amendment, insert:	Sabatini	4/23/2019 6:39 PM	House: Adopted 4/25/2019	PDF
410225 - Amendment to Amendment (732827) Remove line 360 of the amendment and insert:	Jenne	4/23/2019 6:09 PM	House: Adopted 4/25/2019	PDF
511855 - Amendment to Amendment (732827) Remove lines 361-443 of the amendment and insert:	Jenne	4/23/2019 6:48 PM	House: Withdrawn 4/24/2019	PDF

Floor Votes (1)

Date	Chamber	Result
4/25/2019 5:19 PM	House	71 Yeas - 41 Nays

Citations - Statutes (7)

Citation	Catchline	Location in Bill Location In Bill Help
562.34	Containers; seizure and forfeiture.	Page 2 (pdf)
562.65		Page 2 (pdf)
563.06	Malt beverages; imprint on individual container; size of containers; exemptions.	Page 4 (pdf)
564.05	Limitation of size of individual wine containers; penalty.	Page 4 (pdf)
564.055	Cider containers.	Page 4 (pdf)
564.09	Restaurants; off-premises consumption of wine.	Page 6 (pdf)
565.03	License fees; manufacturers, distributors, brokers, sales agents, and importers of alcoholic beverages; vendor licenses and fees; distilleries and craft distilleries.	Page 7 (pdf)

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