ALCOHOL REGULATION AND SUBSTANCE ABUSE

S.J.R. 1 - World Food Prize Ceremony
HOUSE FILE 682 - Wine Manufacturing, Sale, and Distribution

RELATED LEGISLATION

SENATE FILE 351 - Child Care - Miscellaneous Provisions

SEE CHILDREN & YOUTH. This Act revises child care requirements and includes a five-year prohibition against individuals who have been convicted of a controlled substance offense from having involvement with child care for a period of five years.

SENATE FILE 422 - Crimes, Sentencing, and Procedure - Miscellaneous Revisions

SEE CRIMINAL LAW, PROCEDURE & CORRECTIONS. This Act relates to criminal sentencing and procedure and changes the penalties for certain offenses involving controlled substances.

HOUSE FILE 65 - Operating While Intoxicated Revisions

SEE CRIMINAL LAW, PROCEDURE & CORRECTIONS. This Act relates to motor vehicle operating while intoxicated offenses. The Act reduces the blood alcohol concentration allowable limit while operating a motor vehicle from .10 to .08 . The Act applies to criminal as well as administrative violations of the law. The Act further places certain driving restrictions on a first-time violator of the operating while intoxicated law based upon the circumstances of the violation.

HOUSE FILE 389 - Controlled and Precursor Substances - Miscellaneous Changes

SEE HEALTH & SAFETY. This Act provides for several technical changes to Code chapters regarding controlled substances and precursor substances and provides for the suspension, revocation or restriction of a registrant's authority to handle or prescribe controlled substances if the registrant is a licensed health care professional and has been the subject of disciplinary action by the applicable health professional licensing board.

HOUSE FILE 472 - Federal Block Grant Appropriations

SEE APPROPRIATIONS. This Act appropriates federal block grant and other nonstate moneys to state agencies for the federal fiscal year beginning October 1, 2003, and ending September 30, 2004. The Act includes funding for various substance abuse and drug enforcement programs.

HOUSE FILE 667 - Appropriations - Health and Human Services

SEE HUMAN SERVICES. This Act appropriates funds from the General Fund of the State to the Iowa Department of Public Health for programs and services including those addressing addictive disorders relating to reducing the use of tobacco, alcohol, and other drugs, and treating individuals affected by addictive behaviors. The Act provides for transfer of a portion of the moneys appropriated to the Iowa Department of Public Health for substance abuse grants to the Department of Human Services for an integrated substance abuse managed care system.

HOUSE FILE 683 - Miscellaneous Appropriations and Revisions, Sales and Use Tax Revisions, Criminal Code Revisions, and Other Changes

SEE APPROPRIATIONS. This Act relates to economic development, financial, and taxation matters, revises previously enacted appropriations, and includes provisions affecting sentences for operating-while-intoxicated offenses and allowing the Department of Corrections to operate a substance abuse treatment facility.

ALCOHOL REGULATION AND SUBSTANCE ABUSE

SENATE JOINT RESOLUTION 1 - World Food Prize Ceremony (full text of bill)
BY KRAMER AND IVERSON. This Joint Resolution authorizes the consumption of wine at an awards ceremony to be held by the World Food Prize Foundation at the State Capitol on or around October 16, 2003.

HOUSE FILE 682 - Wine Manufacturing, Sale, and Distribution (full text of bill)
BY COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS. This Act is concerned with the funding of grape and wine development programs in the state, and with the establishment of new wine permit classifications and fees for native wines.

The Act contains provisions relating to the allocation of wholesale wine gallonage taxes for grape and wine development programs. Previously, any annual excess of actual wine gallonage tax revenue collected over the amount of revenue estimated to be collected by the Revenue Estimating Conference was available to support grape and wine development programs, subject to an annual maximum of $75,000. The Act eliminates the "estimate" aspect, such that any annual increase in the amount collected over the amount collected in the previous year, subject to the $75,000 maximum, will be the amount allocated for grape and wine development program support. Provisions relating to the allocation of revenue collected from the wine gallonage tax in the Grape and Wine Development Fund are retroactively applicable to July 1, 2002.

The Act also provides for the creation of two new wine permit classifications relating to native wine. A "native wine" is defined in the Act as a wine manufactured in this state. The Act provides that the holder of a class "B" native wine permit may sell native wine at retail for off-premises consumption, and the holder of a class "C" native wine permit may sell native wine at retail for either off-premises or on-premises consumption, with both new permit holders able to purchase wine for resale only from a native winery holding a class "A" wine permit. The Act provides that if a person holding a class "A" wine permit is a manufacturer of native wine, the person may sell only native wine to a person holding a permit to sell wine at retail, and that the native wine manufacturer may sell native wine at retail for consumption on the premises of the manufacturing facility by applying for a class "C" native wine permit. The Act provides that the annual permit fee for either new native wine permit classification shall be $25. The Act deletes a provision that allows the sale of native wines at retail for off-premises consumption on the premises of the manufacturer or in a retail establishment operated by the manufacturer which is no closer than five miles from an existing winery.

The Act directs the Alcoholic Beverages Division of the Department of Commerce to submit proposed legislation during the 2004 Legislative Session making necessary conforming changes to Code Chapter 123.

The Act takes effect May 21, 2003.