CCS/SCS/HCS/HB 267 - This act makes several changes regarding liquor control laws.

1. Expands the definition of amusement place to include certain golf driving ranges, horse arenas, and certain buildings where baseball, hockey, and basketball are played. The required square footage of an amusement place is reduced from 6,000 to 5,000 square feet. Currently an amusement place is allowed to sell intoxicating liquor by the drink for consumption upon the premises between the hours of 11:00 a.m. and midnight on Sunday. This act will allow sale of liquor by the drink to begin at 9:00 a.m. on Sundays;

2. Permits qualified licensees in Camden, Morgan, and Miller counties, located in areas designated as convention trade zones, to sell liquor by the drink until 3:00 a.m.;

3. Allows persons licensed to sell malt liquor at retail by the drink to also sell nonintoxicating beer (3.2%) by the drink. This license allows the Sunday sale of 5% beer by the drink. The fee for the license is $25;

4. Clarifies language regarding the remittance of license fees. Procedures are established regarding checks returned due to insufficient funds;

5. Expands Sunday sales to include licensees who sell intoxicating liquor by the drink for consumption on the premises;

6. Allows Sunday sales of liquor by the drink without a special permit on February 14th;

7. Allows persons who are at least 18 years of age to accept payment for liquor when acting as a waiter or waitress in a business which sells food for consumption and which has an annual gross income of $200,000;

8. Allows retailers to accept the operator's license issued by any state as proof of age for the purchase of alcoholic beverages. Under current law, retailers may accept only a license issued by a state bordering Missouri as proof of age;

9. Creates the crime of knowingly manufacturing, selling, or supplying a false identification. Persons guilty of this crime are guilty of a Class A misdemeanor;

10. Allows a liquor licensee or employee of the licensee to drink intoxicating beverages in the licensee's establishment;

11. Prohibits agents of The Division of Liquor Control from drinking intoxicating beverages in a licensee's establishment while on duty;

12. Changes certain penalties for violations of liquor laws;

13. The Division of Liquor Control shall establish rules for using minors in the enforcement of liquor control laws;

14. Requires on-duty peace officers for the Division of Liquor Control to immediately identify themselves upon entering a retail licensee's establishment, unless working undercover;

15. Deletes sections 311.093 (Casa Loma Ballroom) and 311.260 (multiple licenses) as obsolete;

16. The governing body of Kansas City, Missouri, is prohibited from making or enforcing any ordinance to suspend or revoke a license, unless the licensee has also violated a provision of Chapter 311 or Chapter 312, RSMo;

17. Expands the definition of boats which may sell liquor by the drink;

18. Permits licensed places of entertainment in the City of St. Louis, St. Louis County and Jackson County to open at 9:00 on Sundays; and

19. Allows distillers or wholesalers to install certain dispensing machines at retail business establishments.
TOM MORTON