West Virginia House Bill 4539 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 5-0)
Status: Introduced on February 15 2016 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2016-02-15 - To House Agriculture and Natural Resources
Pending: House Agriculture & Natural Resources Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]

The purpose of this bill is to permit a farm winery to enter alternating wine proprietorship agreements with farm owners located in West Virginia who obtain licensure as a farm winery and rent or lease space from the established farm winery who owns wine production facilities, equipment and separately bonded wine areas and other space for the safe and sanitary manufacture of wine. Licensed farm wineries, with approval, may also attend licensed festivals and fairs and conduct tastings and sell samples up to three samples, 1 fluid ounce, per patron and sell bottles for off-premises consumption by patrons.

Permitting farm winery licensure as alternating wine proprietorships and permitting farm wineries to provide samples

Del. Allen Evans [R]	Del. Paul Espinosa [R]	Del. William Romine [R]	Sen. Bill Hamilton [R]
Del. Ruth Rowan [R]

Date	Chamber	Action
2016-02-15	House	To House Agriculture and Natural Resources
2016-02-15	House	Introduced in House
2016-02-15	House	To Agriculture and Natural Resources then Finance
2016-02-15	House	Filed for introduction

SB435 (Similar To) 2016-03-02 - To House Judiciary

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
38	8	1	Amended Code	Citation Text
60	1	5a	Amended Code	Citation Text
60	4	3b	Amended Code	Citation Text
60	8	3	Amended Code	Citation Text

Type	Source
Summary	http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=4539&year=2016&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill
Text	http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb4539%20intr.htm&yr=2016&sesstype=RS&i=4539