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PRINTER'S NO. 1079
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
SENATE BILL
No. 960
Session of
2025
INTRODUCED BY J. WARD, PHILLIPS-HILL, STEFANO AND YAW,
JULY 23, 2025
REFERRED TO LAW AND JUSTICE, JULY 23, 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
licenses and regulations and liquor, alcohol and malt and
brewed beverages, further providing for authority to issue
liquor licenses to hotels, restaurants and clubs, for sales
by liquor licensees and restrictions, for sale of malt or
brewed beverages by liquor licensees, for retail dispensers'
restrictions on purchases and sales, for unlawful acts
relative to malt or brewed beverages and licensees and for
premises to be vacated by patrons.
The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
hereby enacts as follows:
Section 1. Sections 401(a), 406(a)(4), 407(a)(1), 442(a)(1)
(i), 492(7) and 499(a.1)(4) of the act of April 12, 1951
(P.L.90, No.21), known as the Liquor Code, are amended to read:
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Section 401. Authority to Issue Liquor Licenses to Hotels,
Restaurants and Clubs.--(a) Subject to the provisions of this
act and regulations promulgated under this act, the board shall
have authority to issue a retail liquor license for any premises
kept or operated by a hotel, restaurant or club and specified in
the license entitling the hotel, restaurant or club to purchase
liquor from a Pennsylvania Liquor Store and to keep on the
premises such liquor and, subject to the provisions of this act
and the regulations made thereunder, to sell the same and also
malt or brewed beverages to guests, patrons or members for
consumption on the hotel, restaurant or club premises. Such
licensees[, other than clubs,] shall be permitted to sell malt
or brewed beverages for consumption off the premises where sold
in quantities of not more than one hundred ninety-two fluid
ounces in a single sale to one person as provided for in section
407. Such licenses shall be known as hotel liquor licenses,
restaurant liquor licenses and club liquor licenses,
respectively. No person who holds any public office that
involves the duty to enforce any of the penal laws of the United
States, this Commonwealth or of any political subdivision of
this Commonwealth may have any interest in a hotel or restaurant
liquor license. This prohibition applies to anyone with arrest
authority, including, but not limited to, United States
attorneys, State attorneys general, district attorneys, sheriffs
and police officers. This prohibition shall also apply to
magisterial district judges, judges or any other individuals who
can impose a criminal sentence. This prohibition does not apply
to members of the General Assembly, township supervisors, city
councilpersons, mayors without arrest authority and any other
public official who does not have the ability to arrest or the
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ability to impose a criminal sentence. This section does not
apply if the proposed premises are located outside the
jurisdiction of the individual in question.
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Section 406. Sales by Liquor Licensees; Restrictions.--(a)
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(4) (i) Hotel and restaurant liquor licensees, municipal
golf course restaurant liquor licensees and privately-owned
public golf course restaurant licensees which do not qualify for
and purchase such special permit, their servants, agents or
employes may sell liquor and malt or brewed beverages only after
seven o'clock antemeridian of any day and until two o'clock
antemeridian of the following day, and shall not sell after two
o'clock antemeridian on Sunday. No club licensee or its
servants, agents or employes may sell liquor or malt or brewed
beverages between the hours of three o'clock antemeridian and
seven o'clock antemeridian on any day. No public service liquor
licensee or its servants, agents, or employes may sell liquor or
malt or brewed beverages between the hours of two o'clock
antemeridian and seven o'clock antemeridian on any day.
(ii) No club license