New Kansas House bill changes liquor laws

TOPEKA, Kan. (WIBW) – Governor Laura Kelly accepted a invoice Monday, April 24 that adjustments legal guidelines relating to alcohol gross sales in Kansas.

Kansas Home Invoice 2059 amends a number of provisions of the Kansas Liquor Management Act, the Kansas Cereal Malt Beverage Act and the Membership and Ingesting Institution Act.

Among the many revisions are an modification to the frequent consumption space legislation to allow quite than require streets and roadways to be blocked and designating areas by signage. Supporters of the invoice say it ends the restriction of bar-hopping throughout reside out of doors occasions.

“It opens up an entire number of occasions,” Katie Turner, Common Supervisor of The Celtic Fox in Topeka, mentioned. “It opens them as much as your complete downtown group so individuals can come and go and it makes it so much simpler on the individuals which might be internet hosting these occasions as a result of there’s a lot much less bodily work and fear.”

The invoice eliminated a requirement stating retailers can promote alcohol on Sundays provided that gross sales of meals present not less than 30% of product sales. Supporters of the invoice consider it helps native companies earn extra revenue. “Something that we are able to do to assist the group to assist our Kansas staff is an efficient factor,” Turner mentioned.

The invoice additionally permits eating places to permit canine in exterior areas on their premises and in microbreweries so long as particular situations are met.

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