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PA HB1455
Bill
Status
5/13/2025
Primary Sponsor
Abby Major
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AI Summary
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Creates a new "convenience store liquor license" category in Pennsylvania's Liquor Code, allowing gas stations with attached stores selling everyday items (groceries, snacks, tobacco, etc.) to sell malt or brewed beverages for off-premises consumption
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Limits sales to no more than 192 fluid ounces (equivalent to a 16-pack of 12 oz cans) per single transaction per customer, in closed containers only
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Sets license fees at $2,500 one-time fee plus $750 annual renewal, with fees graduated based on municipality population
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Exempts convenience store license applicants from the proximity restriction that normally prohibits new licenses within 200 feet of other licensed premises, while maintaining the 300-foot restriction from churches, schools, hospitals, and playgrounds
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Allows convenience stores in buildings of 11,000 square feet or less with interior connections to other businesses to use registers in the connected business for beer sales, provided they comply with signage, training, and ID-scanning requirements
Legislative Description
In preliminary provisions, further providing for definitions; and, in licenses and regulations relating to liquor, alcohol and malt and brewed beverages, further providing for applications for hotel, restaurant and club liquor licenses, for issuance, transfer or extension of hotel, restaurant and club liquor licenses, for license fees, for sale of malt or brewed beverages by liquor licensees and for malt and brewed beverages manufacturers', distributors' and importing distributors' licenses.
Last Action
Referred to Liquor Control
5/13/2025