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SF 2346 Senate Long Description

2E Regulating the sale and distribution of liquor; authorizing various licenses; clarifying certain filing requirements; requiring farm wineries to be treated as wholesalers for the excise tax imposed on certain wines; clarifying an excise tax exemption for home-brewed naturally fermented fruit juices or beer products; allowing farm wineries to import bulk distilled spirits under certain conditions and creating an excise tax exemption; expanding sales at microdistilleries and allowing for the issuance of a cocktail room license; authorizing licensed brewers to refill a growler with malt liquor for off-sale at the request of the customer under certain conditions; allowing home-brewed naturally fermented fruit juices or beer products to be shown at public events and prohibiting sales; increasing production limits for farm wineries, allowing storage in a noncontiguous warehouse, and allowing purchase of bulk wine or distilled spirits under certain conditions; allowing religious stores to sell sacramental wines; authorizing on-sale liquor licenses for the American Swedish Institute and the Minneapolis Institute of the Arts; removing a food service requirement for service of wine and beer, increasing the allowed percentage of alcohol in wine; expanding license revocation authority; allowing on-sale establishments to use infused beverages and cocktails with certain restrictions; modifying regulations relating to the sampling of malt liquor; authorizing the city of Brooklyn Park to issue an on-sale intoxicating liquor license to a wedding event center; allowing an on-sale license for professional hockey events at the Richfield Ice Area; allowing Hennepin county establishments licensed to sell alcohol a special closing time during the 2014 major league baseball All-Star game at Target Field; allowing Golden Valley to issue an on-sale license to a city-owned golf course and community center; and extending University of Minnesota liquor sales and removing a current sunset
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