AL HB326

Defines convenience stores as businesses primarily engaged in retail sale of convenience goods or convenience goods and gasoline, employing at least one employee, excluding hotels, taverns, restaurants, pharmacies, gas stations, grocery stores, supermarkets, and businesses exceeding 10,000 square feet of retail floor space.

Requires owners of convenience stores licensed to sell alcoholic beverages to adopt a policy prohibiting placement of movable containers holding alcoholic beverages in locations easily accessible to minors.

Identifies legislative findings that alcoholic beverages are the second most heavily advertised products in America with over $100 million in annual outdoor advertising spending, and that advertising increases consumption among minors.

Directs the Alabama Alcoholic Beverage Control Board to adopt implementing rules within 60 days of enactment.

Effective date is the first day of the third month following passage and gubernatorial approval.