HB 287-FN – AS INTRODUCED
2009 SESSION
03/05
HOUSE BILL 287-FN
AN ACT relative to the sale of liquor by grocery and drug stores.
SPONSORS: Rep. Burridge, Ches 3
COMMITTEE: Local and Regulated Revenues
This bill authorizes the sale of liquor by certain grocery and drug stores.
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Explanation: Matter added to current law appears in bold italics.
Matter removed from current law appears [in brackets and struckthrough.]
/ Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.
09-0027
03/05
STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Nine
AN ACT relative to the sale of liquor by grocery and drug stores.
Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:
1 New Paragraph; Off-Premises Liquor Licenses: Sale of Liquor. Amend RSA 178:18 by inserting after paragraph III the following new paragraph:
IV. An off-premises licensee that does not sell tobacco products may sell liquor under the same terms and conditions that the licensee is authorized to sell beverage, fortified wine, and table wine. Liquor purchases by the licensee shall be made from the commission under the same terms and conditions as those established by the commission for fortified wines and table wines.
2 Effective Date. This act shall take effect 60 days after its passage.
LBAO
09-0027
01/06/09
HB 287-FN - FISCAL NOTE
AN ACT relative to the sale of liquor by grocery and drug stores.
FISCAL IMPACT:
The New Hampshire State Liquor Commission states this bill will have an indeterminable effect on state revenues and expenditures in FY 2009 and each year thereafter. This bill will have no fiscal impact on county and local revenues or expenditures.
METHODOLOGY:
This bill authorizes an off-premise license that does not sell tobacco products to sell liquor under the same terms and conditions that the licensee is authorized to sell beverage, fortified wine, and table wine. The New Hampshire State Liquor Commission states the proposed legislation will have an indeterminable effect of state revenues and expenditures. The Commission’s statement is based on an assumption that less than 10% of convenience stores would opt to sell liquor in place of tobacco products. The commission states that in order to make the sale of liquor financially viable to a licensee that currently sells tobacco products, the agency store discount rate would need to be increased from 8% to 10%. Even if there were an increase to the discount rate, the Commission believes that an overwhelming majority of licensee’s currently selling tobacco products would continue to sell tobacco products in lieu of liquor. Consequently, the Commission states that there would be a minimal increase in state revenues that may or may not be offset by a decrease in tobacco tax revenue.
The Commission states this bill will increase state expenditures by an indeterminable amount resulting from the need for additional enforcement efforts that would coincide with the subsequent increase in the number of agency stores.
This bill does not contain an appropriation or establish positions.