PRINTER'S NO. 482
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
SENATE BILL
No. 519
Session of
2025
INTRODUCED BY BOSCOLA, GEBHARD, COSTA AND STEFANO,
MARCH 25, 2025
REFERRED TO LAW AND JUSTICE, MARCH 25, 2025
AN ACT
1 Amending the act of April 12, 1951 (P.L.90, No.21), entitled "An
2 act relating to alcoholic liquors, alcohol and malt and
3 brewed beverages; amending, revising, consolidating and
4 changing the laws relating thereto; regulating and
5 restricting the manufacture, purchase, sale, possession,
6 consumption, importation, transportation, furnishing, holding
7 in bond, holding in storage, traffic in and use of alcoholic
8 liquors, alcohol and malt and brewed beverages and the
9 persons engaged or employed therein; defining the powers and
10 duties of the Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board; providing
11 for the establishment and operation of State liquor stores,
12 for the payment of certain license fees to the respective
13 municipalities and townships, for the abatement of certain
14 nuisances and, in certain cases, for search and seizure
15 without warrant; prescribing penalties and forfeitures;
16 providing for local option, and repealing existing laws," in
17 Pennsylvania Liquor Stores, further providing for sales by
18 Pennsylvania Liquor Stores.
19 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
20 hereby enacts as follows:
21 Section 1. Section 305(b) and (b.1) of the act of April 12,
22 1951 (P.L.90, No.21), known as the Liquor Code, amended July 15,
23 2024 (P.L.700, No.57) and July 17, 2024 (P.L.924, No.86), are
24 amended to read:
25 Section 305. Sales by Pennsylvania Liquor Stores.--* * *
26 (b) Every Pennsylvania Liquor Store shall sell liquors,
 1 including wine and ready-to-drink cocktails, at wholesale to
2 hotels, restaurants, clubs, and railroad, pullman and steamship
3 companies licensed under this act; and ready-to-drink cocktails
4 to distributors and importing distributors that hold a ready-to-
5 drink cocktail permit; and, under the regulations of the board,
6 to pharmacists duly licensed and registered under the laws of
7 the Commonwealth, and to manufacturing pharmacists, and to
8 reputable hospitals approved by the board, or chemists. Sales to
9 licensees shall be made at a price that includes a discount of
10 ten per centum from the retail price; except that special order
11 sales to licensees authorized in subsection (a) shall not be
12 subject to the ten per centum discount. The board may sell to
13 registered pharmacists only such liquors as conform to the
14 Pharmacopoeia of the United States, the National Formulary, or
15 the American Homeopathic Pharmacopoeia. The board may sell at
16 special prices under the regulations of the board, to United
17 States Armed Forces facilities which are located on United
18 States Armed Forces installations and are conducted pursuant to
19 the authority and regulations of the United States Armed Forces.
20 All other sales by such stores shall be at retail, except that
21 incentives, such as coupons or discounts on certain products,
22 may be offered to unlicensed customers of the board as provided
23 under sections 207(m) and 493(24)(ii)(B). A person entitled to
24 purchase liquor at wholesale prices may purchase the liquor at
25 any Pennsylvania Liquor Store upon tendering cash, check or
26 credit card or, in accordance with regulations of the board,
27 upon payment within thirty days of the date of sale, for the
28 full amount of the purchase. For this purpose, the board shall
29 issue a discount card to each licensee identifying such licensee
30 as a person authorized to purchase liquor at wholesale prices.
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 1 Such discount card shall be retained by the licensee. The board
2 may contract through the Commonwealth bidding process for
3 delivery to wholesale licensees at the expense of the licensee
4 receiving the delivery. In addition, the board shall establish a
5 program under which wholesale licensees are provided a discount
6 if the licensee picks up its purchases at board-specified
7 locations, including its warehouse. The board may set whatever
8 parameters that it deems appropriate, including the amount of
9 the discount or discounts and minimum purchase requirements.
10 (b.1) The board may contract with a licensed transporter for
11 hire through the Commonwealth bidding process for delivery to
12 retail licensees and permit holders at the expense of the
13 licensee or permit holder receiving delivery. Payment shall be
14 by credit card or electronic fund transfer [only] and may occur
15 no later than the time of delivery[.] or, in accordance with
16 regulations of the board, within thirty days of the date of
17 delivery.
18 * * *
19 Section 2. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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