Florida Senate - 2024 SB 574 By Senator Burgess 23-01250-24 2024574__ 1 A bill to be entitled 2 An act relating to in-store servicing of alcoholic 3 beverages; amending s. 561.424, F.S.; revising 4 applicability of provisions regulating in-store 5 servicing of wine to include products with a specified 6 percentage of alcohol; authorizing the Division of 7 Alcoholic Beverages and Tobacco of the Department of 8 Business and Professional Regulation to adopt rules; 9 making technical changes; providing an effective date. 10 11 Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida: 12 13 Section 1.Subsections (2) of section 561.424, Florida 14 Statutes, is amended, and subsections (3) and (4) are added to 15 that section, to read: 16 561.424Vinous and other beverages; in-store servicing 17 authorized. 18 (2)Nothing in s. 561.42 or any other provision of the 19 alcoholic beverage law prohibits shall prohibit a distributor of 20 wine from providing in-store servicing of wine sold by the such 21 distributor to a vendor. As used in this section, the term in 22 store servicing as used herein means: placing the wine on the 23 vendors shelves and maintaining the appearance and display of 24 the said wine on the vendors shelves in the vendors licensed 25 premises; placing the wine that is not so shelved or displayed 26 in a storage area designated by the vendor, which is located in 27 the vendors licensed premises; rotation of vinous beverages; 28 and price stamping of vinous beverages in the vendors licensed 29 premises. This section shall not apply to distilled spirits. 30 (3)This section does not apply to distilled spirits, but 31 specifically applies to products containing less than 6 percent 32 alcohol by volume as described in s. 564.06(5)(b). 33 (4)The division may adopt rules to implement this section. 34 Section 2.This act shall take effect July 1, 2024.