Senate Bill No. 138 Summary

• Allows wholesalers and their affiliates to provide or coordinate transportation, distribution, and warehousing services for other wholesalers of any type of alcoholic beverage.

• Defines new terms including "affiliate," "logistic services," "contracting wholesaler," and "wholesaler-carrier" to establish the framework for these cross-type services.

• Imposes an additional annual permit fee of $50,000 on wholesaler-carriers that provide logistic services for alcoholic beverage types they are not authorized to wholesale under their own permit.

• Permits wholesaler-carriers to warehouse beverages only at premises described in their own wholesaler application and permit.

• Effective July 1, 2012.