Colorado Senate Bill 17-143: Retail Sale of Alcohol Beverages

• Modifies the definition of liquor-licensed drugstores to allow businesses that are not drugstores themselves but have a licensed drugstore within their premises to obtain liquor licenses.

• Excludes revenues from cigarettes, tobacco products, nicotine products, and lottery products from the 20% cap on non-alcohol product sales at retail liquor stores.

• Requires retail liquor stores seeking to relocate to comply with proximity restrictions of 1,500 feet from other retail alcohol licensees, or 3,000 feet in municipalities with populations of 10,000 or fewer.

• Allows liquor-licensed drugstores that applied for new licenses before October 1, 2016, to obtain multiple retail licenses and permits controlled groups of corporations to have equal eligibility for multiple drugstore licenses, subject to aggregate limits.

• Restores permitted sales hours for fermented malt beverages in sealed containers to 5 a.m. to 12 midnight and exempts liquor-licensed drugstores from prohibitions on automated teller machines where public assistance benefits can be withdrawn.