Fiscal Note & Local Impact Statement
127 th General Assembly of Ohio
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LOCAL IMPACT
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Authorizes
liquor permit holders to accept military identification cards that contain a
picture and age data as proof of the purchaser's age and makes related
changes |
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STATE FUND |
FY 2008 |
FY 2009 |
FUTURE YEARS |
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Liquor Control Fund (Fund
043) – Department of Commerce |
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Revenues |
- 0 - |
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Expenditures |
One-time increase of
$9,000 to $10,000 for postage |
- 0 - |
- 0 - |
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Note: The state
fiscal year is July 1 through June 30.
For example, FY 2008 is July 1, 2007 – June 30, 2008.
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The
bill requires the Division of Liquor Control in the Department of Commerce to
provide retail liquor permit holders with a notice of the permissible forms of
identification when checking the age of the person buying alcohol. The Division noted that it would send out a
mailing to retail permit holders containing the notice. One-time postage costs for these mailings
would be approximately $9,000 to $10,000 in FY 2008.
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No
direct fiscal effect on political subdivisions.
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Military identification cards – acceptable
identification
Under current law, a liquor
permit holder, agent, or employee of a permit holder cannot be found guilty of
a violation of the Liquor Control Law or any rule of the Liquor Control
Commission in which age is an element of the offense if certain conditions are
met. One of those conditions is that
the person buying alcohol exhibited to the permit holder a driver's license or
an identification card issued under the Driver's License Law showing that the
person buying alcohol was of the age required to purchase beer, intoxicating
liquor, or low-alcohol beverages.
This bill authorizes a
liquor permit holder to accept a military identification card that contains a
picture and age data as proof of a purchaser's age in addition to a driver's
license or other appropriate identification card. This provision appears to have no direct fiscal effect on the
state or local governments.
Notice to permit holders
The bill also requires the
Division of Liquor Control in the Department of Commerce to provide, not later
than 90 days after the bill's effective date, retail liquor permit holders with
a notice of the permissible forms of identification when checking the age of
the person buying alcohol. The Division
of Liquor Control currently licenses over 24,000 privately owned and operated
manufacturers, distributors, and retailers of alcoholic beverages. Retail permit holders hold the vast majority
of the liquor permits the Division issues.
The Division noted that it
would send out a mailing to retail permit holders containing the notice in
addition to posting the notice at its web site. It is likely that these mailings would not qualify for bulk postage
rates since bulk rates require a minimum number of presorted pieces per zip
code (500 pieces for first-class mail) and permit quotas limit the number of
liquor permit holders in any given municipality or township to one per 1,000 or
2,000 people, depending on permit type.
Therefore, it appears that one-time postage costs for these mailings, at
41 cents per piece, would be approximately $9,000 to $10,000 in FY 2008.
LSC fiscal staff: Jason Phillips, Budget Analyst