technical correction; liquor licenses

Plain English Breakdown

The official text confirms the bill amends Section 4-204 but does not explicitly state that no substantive rules were changed; this is inferred from the 'technical correction' title and context.

HB2624: Technical Correction for Liquor License Rules

This bill fixes wording errors in Arizona law about who can sell alcohol when a license holder dies, goes bankrupt, or faces legal action.

What This Bill Does

• Changes the text of Section 4-204 to fix grammar and word choices without changing the rules themselves.
• Clarifies that court-appointed people like guardians or receivers need permission from the director to sell alcohol for up to 24 months.
• Corrects a sentence about when these special sales do not apply if a license is transferred to a spouse or child's guardian.
• Updates language regarding creditors who own liquor after enforcing security interests on wholesalers.

Who It Names or Affects

• Administrators, executors, guardians, receivers, trustees, and assignees acting for liquor license holders
• The director of the state agency that issues alcohol licenses
• Creditors or representatives who own spirituous liquor due to security interest enforcement

Terms To Know

Technical correction

A change made only to fix errors in spelling, grammar, or wording without changing the meaning of the law.

Personal representative

A person appointed by a court to manage the estate of someone who has died or is unable to act for themselves.

Security interest

A legal right given to a lender over property, such as liquor inventory, if a borrower does not pay back money owed.

Limits and Unknowns

• The bill text only shows the corrected wording and does not explain why specific words were changed.
• The effective date for when this change takes place is not listed in the provided information.
• This summary relies on a short excerpt of the full statute, so other parts of Section 4-204 are not included.

Official Summary Text

HB2624 - technical correction; liquor licenses

Current Bill Text

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