As Introduced
136th General Assembly
Regular Session H. B. No. 218
2025-2026
Representatives Cockley, Salvo
Cosponsors: Representatives Brennan, Ritter, White, E., Rader, Grim, Miller, J.,
Jarrells, Brownlee, Lett, Somani, Sigrist, Daniels, Klopfenstein, Thomas, D.,
Glassburn, Deeter
To amend section 4301.13 of the Revised Code to
allow retail liquor permit holders to offer a
discount on dealcoholized wine under specified
circumstances.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF OHIO:
Section 1. That section 4301.13 of the Revised Code be
amended to read as follows:
Sec. 4301.13. (A) The liquor control commission may adopt,
promulgate, repeal, rescind, and amend rules to regulate the
manner of dealing in and distributing and selling bottled wine
within the state. The commission may require out-of-state
producers, shippers, bottlers, and holders of federal importers'
permits shipping bottled wine into Ohio and holders of A-2, A-
2f, B-5, B-3, and B-2 permits issued by the division of liquor
control, engaged in distributing and selling bottled wine in
Ohio, to file with the division a schedule of prices in which
minimum prices are set forth for the sale of bottled wine at
wholesale or retail, or both, in Ohio. Any amendments,
additions, alterations, or revisions to the schedule of prices
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as originally filed with the division shall be filed in the same
manner as the original schedule of prices required to be filed
with the division.
(B)(1) As used in division (B)(2) of this section:
(a) "Case" means not less than six and not more than
twelve bottles of wine, which need not be of the same brand,
variety, or volume.
(b) "Dealcoholized beverage" means wine that has been
processed to remove its alcohol so that the beverage contains
less than one-half of one per cent of alcohol by volume.
(2) The commission may determine and fix the minimum mark-
ups at wholesale or retail, or both, for bottled wine, and fix
the minimum prices at which the various classes of bottled wine
shall be distributed and sold in Ohio either at wholesale or
retail, or both. With regard to the minimum prices at which
various classes of bottled wine are sold in the state at retail,
the commission shall allow a retail permit holder to offer to a
personal consumer a ten per cent discount off the per-bottle
retail sale price on each bottle included in a case of that wine
that is offered for sale.
(2) As used in division (B)(1) of this section, "case"
means not less than six and not more than twelve bottles of
wine, which need not be of the same brand, variety, or volume In
conjunction with the discount on a case of wine, the commission
shall allow a retail permit holder to offer a ten per cent
discount off the per-bottle retail sale price on each bottle of
dealcoholized beverage that is offered for sale if the person
purchases the dealcoholized beverage as part of the same
transaction in which the person purchases a case of wine .
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Section 2. That existing section 4301.13 of the Revised
Code is hereby repealed.
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