Arkansas 2025 Regular Session Status: Enacted

SB 98 — TO AMEND THE LAW REGARDING ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES; TO AUTHORIZE THE THIRD-PARTY DELIVERY OF ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES FROM CERTAIN RETAILERS; AND TO CREATE A THIRD-PARTY DELIVERY PERMIT.

Last action — Notification that SB98 is now Act 157

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  1. ✓
    Introduced
  2. ✓
    In Committee
  3. ✓
    Passed Senate
  4. ✓
    Passed House
  5. ✓
    To Executive
  6. 6
    Enacted

This bill has been enacted into law. Introduced January 23, 2025. Enacted.

Signed by Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders (Republican) on February 25, 2025.

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Advancing 52% · moderate confidence

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  • 2 sponsors

    2 primary, 0 co-sponsors signed on.

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Bill Text

What changed in the latest version

1 added · 2 removed

Plain-language change summary

The updated version of Bill SB 98 adds new lines that provide additional details or provisions, indicating a significant change to the content. It also removes a reference to Act 157 from the Regular Session, which may mean that certain prior laws or agreements are no longer applicable. This matters because it clarifies the current legal framework and potentially affects how the law will be implemented moving forward.

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The bill establishes regulations for third-party delivery of alcoholic beverages and creates a new permit for such services.

  • 3-4-107

    The permit holder authorized under subsection (a) of this section shall not may deliver or cause to be delivered alcoholic beverages to an a wet area outside inside of the county in which the permitted business is located or in a wet area of an adjoining county.

    This change clarifies delivery restrictions for permit holders.

  • Title 3, Chapter 4

    Subchapter 11 — Third-party Delivery Permits

    This creates a new subchapter for regulating third-party delivery permits for alcoholic beverages.

  • 3-4-1101

    An individual, a limited liability company, a corporation, or a partnership registered to do business in this state, regardless of the residence of the ownership of the entity, may apply to the Alcoholic Beverage Control Division for a third-party delivery permit.

    This establishes eligibility criteria for obtaining a third-party delivery permit.

  • 3-4-1101

    A third-party delivery permit shall not be issued to the holder of a permit in the manufacturing or wholesale tier of the alcoholic beverage industry.

    This restricts third-party delivery permits from being issued to certain types of businesses.

  • 3-4-1101

    A holder of a third-party delivery permit may contract with or employ a driver for the delivery of an alcoholic beverage from the premises of the holder of a retailer’s permit described by § 3-4-107(a) to a consumer located in an area where the sale of the alcoholic beverage is legal.

    This allows third-party delivery permit holders to engage delivery drivers.

  • 3-4-1101

    In order to receive a third-party delivery permit, an applicant shall submit to the division an outline of internal or external training for delivery drivers that addresses topics including identifying underage persons, intoxicated persons, and fake or altered identification.

    This requires training outlines to be submitted with the permit application.

  • 3-4-1101

    The division shall charge an annual fee of five hundred dollars ($500) for a third-party delivery permit to be paid to and retained by the division.

    This establishes a fee for obtaining a third-party delivery permit.

  • 3-4-1102

    In determining whether the sale of an alcoholic beverage is legal in an area for delivery under § 3-4-1101, a holder of a third-party delivery permit or a delivery driver employed by, contracted with, or acting on behalf of the holder of a third-party delivery permit may consult a map or other publicly available information produced by the Alcoholic Beverage Control Division for the purpose of establishing where the sale of alcoholic beverages is legal.

    This provides a method for confirming the legality of delivery areas.

  • 3-4-1103

    A holder of a third-party delivery permit or a delivery driver employed by, contracted with, or acting on behalf of the holder of a third-party delivery permit shall only deliver an alcoholic beverage to a person who is twenty-one (21) years of age or older after the person accepting the delivery presents valid proof of identity and age.

    This mandates age verification for deliveries.

  • 3-4-1104

    An action by a holder of a third-party delivery permit or delivery driver employed by, contracted with, or acting on behalf of the holder of a third-party delivery permit is not attributable to the retailer with regard to: (1) Providing, selling, or serving alcoholic beverages to a minor or to an intoxicated individual; (2) The delivery of alcoholic beverages in a dry or otherwise illegal area...

    This limits the liability of retailers for actions by third-party delivery services.

  • 3-4-1106

    The Alcoholic Beverage Control Division shall approve an alcohol delivery training program of an applicant for a third-party delivery permit before the third-party delivery permit is issued.

    This requires approval of a training program prior to issuing a delivery permit.

Amendments

2 amendments

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Action History

  1. Notification that SB98 is now Act 157

  2. DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR.

  3. Reported correctly enrolled and ordered delivered to the Governor.

  4. ORDERED ENROLLED

  5. Returned from the House as passed.

  6. Returned to the Senate as passed.

  7. Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate.

  8. Returned by the Committee Do Pass

  9. Read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and referred to the Committee on HOUSE RULES

  10. RECEIVED FROM THE SENATE

  11. Ordered immediately transmitted to the House.

  12. Read the third time and passed.

  13. Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass

  14. Re-referred to CITY, COUNTY & LOCAL AFFAIRS COMMITTEE - SENATE

  15. REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED

  16. Amendment # 2 read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and adopted, ordered engrossed.

  17. Placed on second reading for purpose of amendment.

  18. Motion to expunge the vote; motion carried

  19. Read the third time and failed.

  20. Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass

  21. Re-referred to CITY, COUNTY & LOCAL AFFAIRS COMMITTEE - SENATE

  22. REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED

  23. Amendment # 1 read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and adopted, ordered engrossed.

  24. Withdrawn from Committee and placed on 2nd reading for purpose of amendment # 1

  25. Rules suspended.

  26. Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to CITY, COUNTY & LOCAL AFFAIRS COMMITTEE - SENATE

  27. Filed

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Co-sponsors (0)

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Not signed on (136)

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Who sponsors SB 98?
SB 98 is sponsored by John Maddox and Breanne Davis.
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