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SENATE/HOUSE FILE _____

BY  (PROPOSED DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE/ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES DIVISION BILL)

A BILL FOR

An Act prohibiting a person or club holding a liquor control license or retail wine or beer permit from selling or possessing alcoholic liquor in powdered or crystalline form for consumption and making penalties applicable.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:

    Section 1.  Section 123.3, subsection 5, Code 2015, is amended to read as follows:
   5.  “Alcoholic liquor” or “intoxicating liquor” means the varieties of liquor defined in subsections 3 and 43 which contain more than five percent of alcohol by weight, beverages made as described in subsection 7 which beverages contain more than five percent of alcohol by weight or six and twenty-five hundredths percent of alcohol by volume but which are not wine as defined in subsection 47 or high alcoholic content beer as defined in subsection 19, and every other liquid, or solid, powder, or crystal, patented or not, containing spirits and every beverage obtained by the process described in subsection 47 containing more than seventeen percent alcohol by weight or twenty-one and twenty-five hundredths percent of alcohol by volume, and susceptible of being consumed by a human being, for beverage purposes. Alcohol manufactured in this state for use as fuel pursuant to an experimental distilled spirits plant permit or its equivalent issued by the federal bureau of alcohol, tobacco and firearms is not an “alcoholic liquor”.
    Sec. 2.  Section 123.49, subsection 2, Code 2015, is amended by adding the following new paragraph:
   NEW PARAGRAPH.  m.  Sell, give, possess, or otherwise supply for human consumption powdered or crystalline alcoholic liquor.
EXPLANATION
The inclusion of this explanation does not constitute agreement with

the explanation’s substance by the members of the general assembly.
   This bill prohibits a person or club holding a liquor control license or retail wine or beer permit, or their agents or employees, from selling, giving, possessing, or supplying for human consumption powdered or crystalline alcoholic liquor. Pursuant to the provisions of Code section 123.50, a violation of the provisions of the bill is a simple misdemeanor and is grounds for the revocation or suspension of the person’s license or permit.