HB 1672 Summary

• Removes liquor commission authority to regulate dancing at licensed premises; establishes that any standard bar may provide dancing facilities and live or recorded music without requiring special approval or commercial district location.

• Eliminates police powers previously granted to liquor commission investigators; limits arrest authority to police officers only, removing investigator authority to arrest without warrant.

• Repeals the dispenser license category for premises where employees or entertainers are compensated to sit with patrons.

• Limits felony-based disqualification for liquor licenses to convictions within the preceding ten years rather than any prior felony conviction.

• Repeals the prohibition on cabaret licenses in apartment mixed-use subprecincts within tourism-based special districts and removes language authorizing liquor investigators to forcibly enter premises and punishing obstruction of investigators.