S527 - ABC Omnibus 2023-24. (SL 2024-41)

Overview: Section 9 of S.L. 2024-41 does all of the following:

• Allows ABC stores to sell branded consumer specialty items such as bottle or can openers, cork screws, muddlers, ashtrays, shopping bags, individual can coolers, drinking glasses, clothing, or key chains that are packaged with a spirituous liquor product. A branded consumer specialty item does not include a tobacco, vapor, or hemp product or tobacco, vapor, or hemp paraphernalia.
• Allows the Commission to approve the retail price for a spirituous liquor product packaged by the producer with one or more branded specialty items at a different price than an individual bottle of the same spirituous liquor product. A local board cannot remove a spirituous liquor product packaged by the producer with one or more branded specialty items from the package.
• Allows ABC stores to sell physical or electronic gift cards. Gift cards can be sold online, and electronic gift cards can be delivered digitally to the purchaser. A gift card can be purchased or redeemed only by a customer 21 years of age or older, and can be redeemed at any ABC store operated by the local board from which the gift card was purchased.
• Allows an ABC store to sell empty barrels or parts of barrels received from a distiller in which spirituous liquors were aged, provided that the local board also purchased the spirituous liquor aged in the barrel.

This section became effective July 1, 2024.