Pennsylvania HB 380: An Act amending the act of April 12, 1951 (P.L.90, No.21), known as the Liquor Code, in preliminary provisions, further providing for definitions.

Bill Text

PRINTER'S NO. 345
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
HOUSE BILL
No. 380
Session of
2025
INTRODUCED BY MAJOR, PICKETT, SMITH AND BARGER, JANUARY 28, 2025
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON LIQUOR CONTROL, JANUARY 28, 2025
AN ACT
Amending the act of April 12, 1951 (P.L.90, No.21), entitled "An
act relating to alcoholic liquors, alcohol and malt and
brewed beverages; amending, revising, consolidating and
changing the laws relating thereto; regulating and
restricting the manufacture, purchase, sale, possession,
consumption, importation, transportation, furnishing, holding
in bond, holding in storage, traffic in and use of alcoholic
liquors, alcohol and malt and brewed beverages and the
persons engaged or employed therein; defining the powers and
duties of the Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board; providing
for the establishment and operation of State liquor stores,
for the payment of certain license fees to the respective
municipalities and townships, for the abatement of certain
nuisances and, in certain cases, for search and seizure
without warrant; prescribing penalties and forfeitures;
providing for local option, and repealing existing laws," in
preliminary provisions, further providing for definitions.
The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
hereby enacts as follows:
Section 1. The definition of "eligible entity" in section
102 of the act of April 12, 1951 (P.L.90, No.21), known as the
Liquor Code, amended July 15, 2024 (P.L.700, No.57), is amended
to read:
Section 102. Definitions.--The following words or phrases,
unless the context clearly indicates otherwise, shall have the
meanings ascribed to them in this section:
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"Eligible entity" [shall mean a city of the third class, a
hospital, a church, a synagogue, a volunteer fire company, a
volunteer ambulance company, a volunteer rescue squad, a unit of
a nationally chartered club which has been issued a club liquor
license, a club which has been issued a club liquor license and
which, as of December 31, 2002, has been in existence for at
least 100 years, a library, a nationally accredited Pennsylvania
nonprofit zoological institution licensed by the United States
Department of Agriculture, a nonprofit agricultural association
in existence for at least ten years, a bona fide sportsmen's
club in existence for at least ten years, a nationally chartered
veterans' organization and any affiliated lodge or subdivision
of such organization, a fraternal benefit society that is
licensed to do business in this Commonwealth and any affiliated
lodge or subdivision of such fraternal benefit society, any
nationally recognized community-based voluntary health
organization committed to fighting cancer, which has been in
existence for at least 100 years, a museum operated by a
nonprofit corporation, a nonprofit corporation engaged in the
performing arts, an arts council, a nonprofit corporation that
operates an arts facility or museum, a nonprofit organization as
defined under section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code of
1986 (Public Law 99-514, 26 U.S.C. § 501(c)(3)) whose purpose is
to protect the architectural heritage of a municipality and
which has been recognized as such by a resolution of the
municipality, a nonprofit organization as defined under section
501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 (Public Law 99-
514, 26 U.S.C. § 501(c)(3)) conducting a regatta in a city of
the second class with the permit to be used on State park
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grounds or conducting a family-oriented celebration as part of
Welcome America in a city of the first class on property leased
from that city for more than fifty years, a nonprofit
organization as defined under section 501(c)(3) of the Internal
Revenue Code of 1986 (26 U.S.C. § 501(c)(3)) whose purpose is to
raise funds for the research and treatment of cystic fibrosis, a
nonprofit organization as defined under section 501(c)(3) of the
Internal Revenue Code of 1986 (26 U.S.C. § 501(c)(3)) whose
purpose is to educate the public on issues dealing with
watershed conservation, a nonprofit organization as defined
under section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986
(Public Law 99-514, 26 U.S.C. § 501(c)(3)) whose purpose is to
provide equine or canine assisted activities for children and
adults with special needs, a nonprofit economic development
agency in a city of the second class with the primary function
to serve as an economic generator for the greater southwestern
Pennsylvania region by attracting and supporting film,
television and related media industry projects and coordinating
government and business offices in support of a production, a
county tourist promotion agency as defined in section 2 of the
act of July 4, 2008 (P.L.621, No.50), known as the "Tourism
Promotion Act," a junior league that is a nonprofit organization
as defined und