General Assembly Raised Bill No. 254
February Session, 2020 LCO No. 2004
Referred to Committee on GENERAL LAW
Introduced by:
(GL)
AN ACT CONCERNING CERTAIN ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGE
SYSTEMS.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General
Assembly convened:
1 Section 1. (NEW) (Effective from passage) (a) A permittee authorized
2 pursuant to title 30 of the general statutes to sell alcoholic liquor for on-
3 premises consumption may use a self-pour automated system that,
4 upon activation of a payment card by the permittee, may be operated to
5 dispense beer, cider not exceeding six per cent alcohol by volume and
6 wine to the following: (1) An employee of the permittee who is
7 authorized by law to serve alcoholic beverages, or (2) a person whom
8 the permittee has verified to be twenty-one years of age or older who
9 displays a government-issued identification card that matches the name
10 on the payment card. Such verification that a person is twenty-one years
11 of age or older shall be recorded by the permittee or an employee of the
12 permittee.
13 (b) A self-pour automated system authorized by subsection (a) of this
14 section shall not dispense a serving of more than thirty-two ounces of
15 beer or cider not exceeding six per cent alcohol by volume or ten ounces
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16 of wine before the payment card is reactivated by the permittee or an
17 employee of the permittee.
18 Sec. 2. (NEW) (Effective from passage) Not later than October 1, 2020,
19 the Department of Consumer Protection shall, pursuant to section 30-6a
20 of the general statutes, amend the regulations of Connecticut state
21 agencies, in accordance with the provisions of chapter 54 of the general
22 statutes, to: (1) Allow for the use of self-pour automated systems by
23 permittees and employees of permittees for the dispensing of beer, cider
24 not exceeding six per cent alcohol by volume and wine pursuant to
25 section 1 of this act, (2) ensure that such beer, cider and wine is not
26 initially dispensed from any such system in servings of more than thirty-
27 two ounces of beer or cider not exceeding six per cent alcohol by volume
28 or ten ounces of wine to any one person for his or her own consumption
29 at any one time, and (3) ensure that second and subsequent servings of
30 such beer, cider and wine from any such system is allowed only after
31 the first serving has been substantially disposed of or consumed by such
32 person.
This act shall take effect as follows and shall amend the following
sections:
Section 1 from passage New section
Sec. 2 from passage New section
Statement of Purpose:
To allow certain alcoholic liquor permittees to use self-pour automated
systems.
[Proposed deletions are enclosed in brackets. Proposed additions are indicated by underline, except
that when the entire text of a bill or resolution or a section of a bill or resolution is new, it is not
underlined.]
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