An Act to Clarify Certain Laws Governing Licenses for the Sale of Liquor by
Maine Legislature, Session 132, LD 2155
Committee Amendment CA_A_SA_A_S633 (Senate)
Amends: 28-A MRSA §1355-A

SENATE AMENDMENT "^ " to COMMITTEE AMENDMENT "A" to S.P. 874,
L.D, 2155, "An Act to Clarify Certain Laws Governing Licenses for the Sale of Liquor by
Manufacturers"
Amend the amendment by striking out the substitute title and inserting the following:
'An Act to Exempt, for Licenses Issued Prior to December 21,2025, Persons Holding
a Majority Ownership Interest from the Restriction on the Number of Manufacturing
Facility Licenses and On-premises Retail Licenses'
Amend the amendment by striking out all of the 2nd instructional paragraph (page 1,
lines 14 and 15 in amendment) and inserting the following:
"Amend the bill by striking out all of the emergency preamble.'
Amend the amendment by striking out all of the 2nd and 3rd indented paragraphs after
the substitute title (page 1, lines 16 to 21 in amendment),
Amend the amendment in the 3rd instructional paragraph in the first and 2nd lines
(page I, lines 22 and 23 in amendment) by striking out the following; "and before the
emergency clause"
Amend the amendment by striking out all of section 1 and inserting the following:
'See. 1. 28-A MRSA §1355-A, sub-§2-C is enacted to read;
2-C. Grandfatherine of certain licenses issued prior to December 21,2025. The
bureau may not suspend. revoke or refuse to renew a license issued under this section or
chai3ter_43 that was initially issued prior to December 21, 2025 solely on the basis that the
person or Detsons hQldine a maioritv ownership interest in the licensed manufacturing
facility were determined by the bureau after the license was initially issued to hold a
maioritv ownershii) interest jn moi'e than the allowable number of on-premises retail
licenses issued under chapter 43 if the on-m'emises retail licenses issued under chapter 43
were also initially issued m'ior to December 21.2025.
A license grandfatherecl pursuant to tliis subsection may not be sold. transferred or
otherwise conveyed,'
5 Amend the amendment by relettering or renumbering any nonconsecutive Part letter or
section number to read consecutively.
SENATE AMENDMENT
SENATE AMENDMENT "^ " to COMMITTEE AMENDMENT "A" to S,P, 874, L.D. 2155 ( 0 "
^ 1 SUMMARY
This amendment changes the title and replaces the provision of Committee
Amendment "A" that temporarily suspended the ability of the Bureau of Alcoholic
Beverages and Lottery Operations, within the Department of Administrative and Financial
Services, to suspend, revoke or refuse to renew a manufacturing facility license or an on"
premises retail license issued to a manufacturing facility licensee that was issued prior to
May 23, 2025 solely on the basis that the person holding a majority ownership interest in
the licensed manufacturing facility was determined by the bureau after the license was
initially issued to hold a majority ownership interest in more than the allowable number of
on-premises retail licenses. Instead, this amendment permanently prohibits the bureau
from suspending, revoking or refusing to renew those licenses and applies the prohibition
to those licenses that were issued prior to December 21, 2025. The amendment also
prohibits the sale, transfer or other conveyance of those licenses,
SPONSORED BY: // l^rjf 5^^L/U.
(Senator GROHOS^I, N.)
COUNTY: Hancock
Page2-132LR2942(07)
SENATE AMENDMENT