PRINTER'S NO. 1295
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
SENATE BILL
No.
986
Session of
2021
INTRODUCED BY AUMENT, YAW, MARTIN, ROBINSON, J. WARD, SCAVELLO,
BAKER, HUTCHINSON, BROOKS, MENSCH, PITTMAN, STEFANO,
PHILLIPS-HILL AND BARTOLOTTA, DECEMBER 29, 2021
REFERRED TO LAW AND JUSTICE, DECEMBER 29, 2021
AN ACT
Amending the act of April 12, 1951 (P.L.90, No.21), entitled "An
act relating to alcoholic liquors, alcohol and malt and
brewed beverages; amending, revising, consolidating and
changing the laws relating thereto; regulating and
restricting the manufacture, purchase, sale, possession,
consumption, importation, transportation, furnishing, holding
in bond, holding in storage, traffic in and use of alcoholic
liquors, alcohol and malt and brewed beverages and the
persons engaged or employed therein; defining the powers and
duties of the Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board; providing
for the establishment and operation of State liquor stores,
for the payment of certain license fees to the respective
municipalities and townships, for the abatement of certain
nuisances and, in certain cases, for search and seizure
without warrant; prescribing penalties and forfeitures;
providing for local option, and repealing existing laws," in
licenses and regulations and liquor, alcohol and malt and
brewed beverages, further providing for license fees.
The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
hereby enacts as follows:
Section 1. Section 405 of the act of April 12, 1951 (P.L.90,
No.21), known as the Liquor Code, is amended by adding a
subsection to read:
Section 405. License Fees.--* * *
(a.1) The 2021 license fee shall be waived for hotel and
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restaurant liquor licensees which were closed as the result of
the proclamation of disaster emergency issued by the Governor on
March 6, 2020, published at 50 Pa.B. 1644 (March 21, 2020), and
any renewal of the state of disaster emergency. If a hotel or
restaurant licensee subject to this subsection paid the 2021
license fee, the fee shall be credited toward the 2022 license
fee.
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Section 2. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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