ARIZONA HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Fifty-fifth Legislature First Regular Session
	House: COM DPA 9-0-0-1 | 3^rd Read 55-5-0-0 Senate: APPROP DPA 10-0-0-0 | 3^rd Read 20-8-2-0 Final Vote: DPA 48-10-2-0

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HB 2753: distilleries; licensing; environmental exemption

NOW: liquor licensees; records; food safety

Sponsor:  Representative Hernandez A, LD 3

Transmitted to the Governor

Overview

Exempts specified records from Department of Liquor Licenses and Control (DLLC) inspection and subjects production and storage spaces to federal standards.

History

A person who has been issued a liquor license by the DLLC must maintain records of their licensed activity, including information about all employees at the licensed premises. The licensee must retain these records for two years (A.R.S. § 4-119).

Production and storage spaces mean bonded areas, tax-paid storage areas and areas that provide no services to the public (A.R.S. § 4-205.10).

Provisions

1. Exempts a liquor licensee's records that contain proprietary formula, production process and business information filed with the United States Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau from inspection by DLLC. (Sec. 1)

2. Subjects licensed producers, including craft distillers, brewers and farm wineries, to federal food safety rules and exemptions.

a) Specifies the rules and exemptions apply only to production and storage spaces. (Sec. 2)

3. Makes a technical change. (Sec. 1)

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