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IN HB1203
Bill
Status
1/10/2017
Primary Sponsor
Lloyd Arnold
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AI Summary
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Effective January 1, 2018, shifts alcoholic beverage retailer's permit quotas from city/town/unincorporated area population to total county population.
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Effective July 1, 2018, allows municipalities and counties to apply to the Alcohol and Tobacco Commission to establish separate quotas for economic development areas based on average yearly visitor population instead of resident population.
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Requires Purdue University's tourism and hospitality research center to develop the methodology for calculating average yearly visitor population of economic development areas in conjunction with the office of tourism development.
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Economic development quotas supersede certain existing statutory limits on permit issuance and apply to retailer's permits and carryout permits, but exclude package liquor store permits.
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Permits issued before an economic development quota is established may be renewed even if they no longer qualify under the new quota requirements.
Legislative Description
Economic development alcoholic beverage quotas. Effective January 1, 2018, requires alcoholic beverage retailer's permits (bar or restaurant permits) to be issued based upon the total county population, instead of the population of the city, town, or unincorporated area of the county where the establishment is located. Effective July 1, 2018, allows a city, town, or county to apply to the alcohol and tobacco commission (ATC) to establish a separate quota for retailer's permits and carryout permits (excluding package liquor store permits) for an economic development area. Provides that the economic development area quota is based upon the average yearly visitor
Last Action
First reading: referred to Committee on Public Policy
1/10/2017