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SF0012 • 2022
Airport restaurant liquor licenses.
AN ACT relating to alcoholic beverages; authorizing the issuance of resort retail liquor licenses for restaurants operating in airports as specified; making conforming amendments; and providing for an effective date.
Did Not Pass
The latest official action shows that this bill did not move forward in that session.
- Sponsor
- Senator Anderson
- Last action
- 2022-03-08
- Official status
- inactive
- Effective date
- 3/1/2022
Plain English Breakdown
The bill did not pass and has no legal effect as of now.
Airport Restaurant Liquor Licenses
The bill allows restaurants in airports to apply for special liquor licenses if they meet certain criteria and makes changes to existing laws about selling alcohol.
What This Bill Does
- Allows airport restaurants that seat at least 25 people to apply for resort retail liquor licenses.
- Requires these restaurant applicants to be located within an airport offering commercial air service.
- Updates the law so that airport restaurants can sell alcoholic drinks for off-premises consumption if they have a catering permit.
Who It Names or Affects
- Restaurants located in airports
- People who work at or own airport restaurants
- Customers dining at airport restaurants
Terms To Know
- Resort retail liquor license
- A special type of alcohol-selling permit for businesses that meet certain criteria.
- Commercial air service
- Regular airline flights available to the public at an airport.
Limits and Unknowns
- The bill did not pass and was not considered by a committee, so it has no legal effect.
- It only applies to restaurants in airports that meet specific seating requirements.
Amendments
These notes stay tied to the official amendment files and metadata from the legislature.
SF0012HS001
Standing Committee • House Corporations, Elections & Political Subdivis
Filed
Plain English: The amendment allows commercial service airports with a retail liquor license to contract for food and beverage services without transferring their liquor license.
- Adds language allowing airports with a retail liquor license to hire other entities for food and beverage services.
- Corrects grammatical errors in the original bill text.
- The amendment does not specify how these changes will be enforced or regulated.
Plain English: The amendment changes a restriction in the bill to allow airport restaurants to apply for liquor licenses more flexibly.
- Removes the phrase 'shall not under any circumstances' from the bill, replacing it with 'may'. This change allows airports to consider issuing liquor licenses to restaurants operating within them.
- The exact conditions and criteria for when airport restaurants may apply for liquor licenses are not specified in this amendment text.
SF0012SS001
Standing Committee • Senate Judiciary Committee
Adopted
Plain English: The amendment changes the number of liquor licenses allowed for certain restaurants in airports from fifty to twenty-five and modifies the description of who can receive these licenses.
- Reduces the maximum number of resort retail liquor licenses that can be issued for airport restaurants from 50 to 25.
- Changes the eligibility criteria for receiving these licenses, now based on operating in a commercial service airport rather than being tied to an individual licensee.
- The amendment text does not provide details about how this change will affect existing licenses or the specific types of airports covered under 'commercial service airport'.
Bill History
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2022-03-08
House
H COW:H Did not consider for COW
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2022-03-03
House
H Placed on General File
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2022-03-03
House
H07 - Corporations:Recommend Amend and Do Pass 7-1-0-1-0
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2022-02-28
House
H Introduced and Referred to H07 - Corporations
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2022-02-24
House
H Received for Introduction
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2022-02-24
Senate
S 3rd Reading:Passed 26-0-0-0-4
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2022-02-23
Senate
S 2nd Reading:Passed
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2022-02-22
Senate
S COW:Passed
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2022-02-21
Senate
S Placed on General File
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2022-02-21
Senate
S01 - Judiciary:Recommend Amend and Do Pass 5-0-0-0-0
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2022-02-17
Senate
S Introduced and Referred to S01 - Judiciary 26-0-0-0-4
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2022-01-19
Senate
S Received for Introduction
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2022-01-04
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Bill Number Assigned
Current Bill Text
Read the full stored bill text
22LSO-0199
2022
STATE OF WYOMING
22LSO-0199
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SENATE FILE NO. SF0012
Airport restaurant liquor licenses.
Sponsored by: Senator(s) Anderson and Representative(s) MacGuire, Walters and Washut
A BILL
for
AN ACT relating to alcoholic beverages; authorizing the issuance of resort retail liquor licenses for restaurants operating in airports as specified; making conforming amendments; and providing for an effective date.
Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Wyoming:
Section 1
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W.S. 12
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401(a) and by creating a new subsection (d) and 12
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404 are amended to read:
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401.
Resort retail liquor licenses; authorized; qualifications; provision for licenses issued prior to July 1, 2022.
(a)
The appropriate licensing authority in a county, city or town may issue resort retail liquor licenses to applicants who are owners or lessees of a resort complex where the resort complex satisfies the requirements of subsection (b) of this section
and to applicants who are owners or lessees of a restaurant operating in an airport where the restaurant satisfies the requirements of subsection (d) of this section
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(d)
To qualify for a resort retail liquor license at an airport restaurant, the appropriate licensing authority shall require the restaurant to:
(i)
Be located within an airport that offers or provides commercial air service to the general public; and
(ii)
Be a restaurant that seats not less than twenty-five (25) persons.
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Sale of beverages for off
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premises consumption prohibited.
Except as otherwise provided in this section, r
esort liquor licensees shall not sell alcoholic or malt beverages for consumption off the premises owned or leased by the licensee, except pursuant to a catering permit.
Resort liquor licensees that satisfy the requirements of W.S. 12
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401(d) may sell alcoholic or malt beverages for consumption off the commercial service airport premises.
The dispensing of alcoholic or malt beverages licensed to be sold hereunder shall be controlled by W.S. 12
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201 and if a catering permit has been issued by W.S. 12
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502(b).
Section 2
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This act is effective July 1, 2022
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