The original instrument and the following digest, which constitutes no part of the
legislative instrument, were prepared by Cathy Wells.
DIGEST
Morrell (SB 204)
Present law provides that all wine sold or shipped into this state shall be in certain sized
containers.
Proposed law retains present law and adds the following container sizes: nineteen and five-tenths
liters, twenty liters, and five hundred milliliters.
Present law requires that wines bottled subject to the standards provided for in present law be
packed with a certain number of bottles per shipping case or shipping container and further
provides for the bottle size and the corresponding bottles per case.
Proposed law retains present law except that it changes all references from "bottles" to
"containers" and further changes a container size from 5 through 18 liters to 5 through 20 liters
and adds a container size of 500 milliliters with 12 containers per case.
Proposed law exempts cider products from container size restrictions.
Effective August 1, 2014.
(Amends R.S. 26:351(2)(a) and (4); adds R.S. 26:351(9))