Legislative Session number- 88

Bill Name: SF2346

2E Regulating the sale and distribution of liquor; authorizing various licenses;
clarifying certain filing requirements; requiring farm wineries to be treated as
wholesalers for the excise tax imposed on certain wines; clarifying an excise
tax exemption for home-brewed naturally fermented fruit juices or beer products;
allowing farm wineries to import bulk distilled spirits under certain conditions
and creating an excise tax exemption; expanding sales at microdistilleries and
allowing for the issuance of a cocktail room license; authorizing licensed
brewers to refill a growler with malt liquor for off-sale at the request of the
customer under certain conditions; allowing home-brewed naturally fermented
fruit juices or beer products to be shown at public events and prohibiting
sales; increasing production limits for farm wineries, allowing storage in a
noncontiguous warehouse, and allowing purchase of bulk wine or distilled spirits
under certain conditions; allowing religious stores to sell sacramental wines;
authorizing on-sale liquor licenses for the American Swedish Institute and the
Minneapolis Institute of the Arts; removing a food service requirement for
service of wine and beer, increasing the allowed percentage of alcohol in wine;
expanding license revocation authority; allowing on-sale establishments to use
infused beverages and cocktails with certain restrictions; modifying regulations
relating to the sampling of malt liquor; authorizing the city of Brooklyn Park
to issue an on-sale intoxicating liquor license to a wedding event center;
allowing an on-sale license for professional hockey events at the Richfield Ice
Area; allowing Hennepin county establishments licensed to sell alcohol a special
closing time during the 2014 major league baseball All-Star game at Target
Field; allowing Golden Valley to issue an on-sale license to a city-owned golf
course and community center; and extending University of Minnesota liquor sales
and removing a current sunset
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