SENATE FILE 150

BY  COMMITTEE ON COMMERCE

(SUCCESSOR TO SF 1)

A BILL FOR

An Act modifying the definition of high alcoholic content beer to exclude added caffeine and other added stimulants, and including effective date provisions.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:

   Section 1.  Section 123.3, subsection 14A, Code 2011, is amended to read as follows:
   14A.  “High alcoholic content beer” means beer which contains more than five percent of alcohol by weight, but not more than twelve percent of alcohol by weight, that is made by the fermentation of an infusion in potable water of barley, malt, and hops, with or without unmalted grains or decorticated and degerminated grains.  “High alcoholic content beer” does not include beer which contains added caffeine or other added stimulants including but not limited to guarana, ginseng, and taurine.
   Sec. 2.  EFFECTIVE UPON ENACTMENT.  This Act, being deemed of immediate importance, takes effect upon enactment.
EXPLANATION
   This bill excludes from the definition of “high alcoholic content beer” beer containing added caffeine or other added stimulants including but not limited to guarana, ginseng, and taurine. This is consistent with a determination by the federal food and drug administration that alcoholic beverages to which caffeine and other stimulants are added are unsafe.
   The bill takes effect upon enactment.