Bill Summary – FastDemocracy

                                                                                       FILED SENATE
                                                                                        May 14, 2020
                          GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
                                                                 S.B. 770
                                      SESSION 2019           PRINCIPAL CLERK
     S                                                                    D
                              SENATE BILL DRS15497-MLfa-150
     Short Title:   Mixed Beverages Permit Fees/Reimburse Portion.                             (Public)
     Sponsors:      Senators Garrett, Peterson, and Chaudhuri (Primary Sponsors).
     Referred to:
                                    A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 AN ACT TO REIMBURSE A PORTION OF MIXED BEVERAGES PERMIT FEES PAID TO
     THE ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGE CONTROL (ABC) COMMISSION TO PERMITTEES
     WHOSE BUSINESS WAS IMPACTED BY THE COVID-19 OUTBREAK IN NORTH
     CAROLINA.
 The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
             SECTION 1. Appropriation & Reimbursement. – Notwithstanding any provision of
 G.S. 18B-902 or G.S. 18B-903 to the contrary, there is appropriated from the General Fund to
 the Department of Public Safety the sum of one million six hundred thousand dollars
 ($1,600,000) in nonrecurring funds for the 2019-2020 fiscal year to be used to provide a one-time
 reimbursement of mixed beverages permit fees paid under G.S. 18B-902(d) or G.S. 18B-903(b)
 to permittees with an active mixed beverages permit as of March 1, 2020. To the extent
 practicable, the amount reimbursed under this section shall only be a pro-rata share for the months
 of March, April, and May of the year 2020, of the amount paid for mixed beverages permit
 application or renewal fees. The Department of Public Safety may work with the ABC
 Commission and any other State agency or department it deems necessary to work with to
 implement the provisions of this act.
             SECTION 2. Reversion. – The funds appropriated in Section 1 of this act shall not
 revert at the end of the 2019-2020 fiscal year, but shall remain available to expend in accordance
 with this act until June 30, 2021.
             SECTION 3. Report. – By October 1, 2020, the ABC Commission shall submit a
 report to the Joint Legislative Commission on Governmental Operations and the Fiscal Research
 Division on (i) the amount of funds reimbursed, (ii) the number of permittees reimbursed, (iii)
 the amount each permittee received as a reimbursement, and (iv) if the funds appropriated in
 Section 1 of this act were insufficient to provide a pro-rata share, the amount of funds needed to
 do so.
             SECTION 4. Effective Date. – This act is effective when it becomes law.
                                *DRS15497-MLfa-150*
