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HB2624 • 2026

technical correction; liquor licenses

HB2624 - technical correction; liquor licenses

Passed Legislature

This bill passed both chambers and reached final enrollment, even if later executive action is not shown here.

Sponsor
Alexander Kolodin
Last action
Official status
Effective date
Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

The official source material does not provide details on specific individuals affected by these changes or the exact number of businesses that will be impacted.

Fixing Rules About Selling Alcohol

This bill makes a small change to Arizona's rules about who can sell alcohol when someone else is in charge of a business that sells it.

What This Bill Does

  • Changes part of the law about people selling alcohol if they are taking care of another person’s business because that person died or cannot run their own business.

Who It Names or Affects

  • People who manage businesses that sell alcohol after the original owners can no longer run them.
  • The state agency in charge of licensing for selling alcohol.

Terms To Know

Licensee
A person or business allowed to sell alcoholic drinks by law.

Limits and Unknowns

  • The bill only makes small changes to existing rules and does not create new laws.
  • It is unclear how many businesses will be affected by these changes.

Bill History

No action history is stored for this bill yet.

Official Summary Text

HB2624 - technical correction; liquor licenses

Current Bill Text

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HB2624 - 572R - I Ver

REFERENCE TITLE:
technical correction; liquor licenses

State of Arizona

House of Representatives

Fifty-seventh Legislature

Second Regular Session

2026

HB 2624

Introduced by

Representative
Kolodin

AN
ACT

amending section 4-204, Arizona
Revised Statutes; relating to alcoholic beverage licensing.

(TEXT OF BILL BEGINS ON NEXT PAGE)

Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Arizona:

Section 1. Section 4-204, Arizona Revised
Statutes, is amended to read:

START_STATUTE
4-204.

Personal representative or fiduciary acting for licensee

A. A person acting as administrator, executor or
guardian of the estate of any licensee or a person acting as receiver for any
licensee, trustee of the bankrupt estate of any licensee or assignee for the
benefit of creditors of a licensee is authorized,
upon

on
receiving permission from the director
,

to sell and deal in spirituous liquors under authority of the license issued to
the licensee for whom the person is acting for a period not exceeding twenty-four
months from the date of the appointment of such person as administrator,
executor, guardian, receiver, trustee or assignee for the benefit of creditors.

B.
The provisions of
This
section
shall

does
not apply if at
any time during the twenty-four months an administrator, executor or
guardian of the estate of a licensee who has received the permission from the
director as provided in subsection A of this section transfers the license to
the surviving spouse or the guardian of the minor child of the licensee.

C. A person, authorized representative or assignee
,
meeting the qualifications of section 4-202, not
licensed under
the provisions of
this chapter
,

and
owning or possessing
spirituous liquor as a result of enforcement of a security interest in the
property of a wholesaler licensed under this chapter is authorized,
upon

on
receiving permission from the
director, to sell such spirituous liquor to a licensee authorized to sell
spirituous liquor for resale. Sections 4-201, 4-203 and
4-243.01 shall not apply to nor restrict the authority granted under this

provision

subsection
.
END_STATUTE