Florida Senate - 2017                        COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
       Bill No. SB 106
       
       
       
       
       
       
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                  01/27/2017           .                                
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       The Committee on Regulated Industries (Hutson) recommended the
       following:
       
    1         Senate Substitute for Amendment (156064) (with title
    2  amendment)
    3  
    4         Delete line 44
    5  and insert:
    6         Section 2. Subsection (1) of section 565.04, Florida
    7  Statutes, is amended to read:
    8         565.04 Package store restrictions.—
    9         (1)(a) The division shall not issue a license under s.
   10  565.02(1)(a) for any location or business located within 1,000
   11  feet of a public or private elementary school, middle school, or
   12  secondary school.
   13         (b) Notwithstanding paragraph (a), vendors Vendors licensed
   14  under s. 565.02(1)(a) on or before June 30, 2017, for a licensed
   15  premises located within 1,000 feet of a public or private
   16  elementary school, middle school, or secondary school may
   17  maintain and renew the beverage license for that premises but
   18  shall not in said place of business sell, offer, or expose for
   19  sale any merchandise other than such beverages, and such places
   20  of business shall be devoted exclusively to such sales;
   21  provided, however, that such vendors shall be permitted to sell
   22  bitters, grenadine, nonalcoholic mixer-type beverages (not to
   23  include fruit juices produced outside this state), fruit juices
   24  produced in this state, home bar, and party supplies and
   25  equipment (including but not limited to glassware and party-type
   26  foods), miniatures of no alcoholic content, and tobacco
   27  products. Such places of business shall have no openings
   28  permitting direct access to any other building or room, except
   29  to a private office or storage room of the place of business
   30  from which patrons are excluded.
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   33  And the title is amended as follows:
   34         Delete lines 11 - 12
   35  and insert:
   36         amending s. 565.04, F.S.; limiting the package store
   37         restrictions to vendors located within a certain
   38         distance of a school; providing an exception for
   39         current licenses with some restrictions; providing an
   40         effective date.