Bill Text: IA HF494 | 2015-2016 | 86th General Assembly | Introduced

Iowa House Bill 494 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: A bill for an act prohibiting a person or club holding a liquor control license or retail wine or beer permit from selling or possessing alcoholic liquor in powdered or crystalline form for consumption and making penalties applicable. (Formerly HSB 132)

Spectrum: Committee Bill

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2015-04-03 - Referred to Commerce. H.J. 753. [HF494 Detail]

Download: Iowa-2015-HF494-Introduced.html

House File 494 - Introduced




                                 HOUSE FILE       
                                 BY  COMMITTEE ON COMMERCE

                                 (SUCCESSOR TO HSB 132)

                                 (COMPANION TO SF 123)

                                      A BILL FOR

  1 An Act prohibiting a person or club holding a liquor control
  2    license or retail wine or beer permit from selling or
  3    possessing alcoholic liquor in powdered or crystalline form
  4    for consumption and making penalties applicable.
  5 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:
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  1  1    Section 1.  Section 123.3, subsection 5, Code 2015, is
  1  2 amended to read as follows:
  1  3    5.  "Alcoholic liquor" or "intoxicating liquor" means the
  1  4 varieties of liquor defined in subsections 3 and 43 which
  1  5 contain more than five percent of alcohol by weight, beverages
  1  6 made as described in subsection 7 which beverages contain more
  1  7 than five percent of alcohol by weight or six and twenty=five
  1  8 hundredths percent of alcohol by volume but which are not wine
  1  9 as defined in subsection 47 or high alcoholic content beer as
  1 10 defined in subsection 19, and every other liquid, or solid,
  1 11 powder, or crystal, patented or not, containing spirits and
  1 12 every beverage obtained by the process described in subsection
  1 13 47 containing more than seventeen percent alcohol by weight or
  1 14 twenty=one and twenty=five hundredths percent of alcohol by
  1 15 volume, and susceptible of being consumed by a human being,
  1 16 for beverage purposes. Alcohol manufactured in this state
  1 17 for use as fuel pursuant to an experimental distilled spirits
  1 18 plant permit or its equivalent issued by the federal bureau of
  1 19 alcohol, tobacco and firearms is not an "alcoholic liquor".
  1 20    Sec. 2.  Section 123.49, subsection 2, Code 2015, is amended
  1 21 by adding the following new paragraph:
  1 22    NEW PARAGRAPH.  m.  Sell, give, possess, or otherwise supply
  1 23 for human consumption powdered or crystalline alcoholic liquor.
  1 24                           EXPLANATION
  1 25 The inclusion of this explanation does not constitute agreement with
  1 26 the explanation's substance by the members of the general assembly.
  1 27    This bill prohibits a person or club holding a liquor control
  1 28 license or retail wine or beer permit, or their agents or
  1 29 employees, from selling, giving, possessing, or supplying for
  1 30 human consumption powdered or crystalline alcoholic liquor.
  1 31 Pursuant to the provisions of Code section 123.50, a violation
  1 32 of the provisions of the bill is a simple misdemeanor and
  1 33 is grounds for the revocation or suspension of the person's
  1 34 license or permit.
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