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Sen. Guthrie introduces liquor-fee adjustments and a resolution limiting RS drafting
Summary
Senator Jim Guthrie introduced RS32831 to adjust longstanding liquor-license fees and RS33041, a concurrent resolution that would cap the number of draft requests and completed RS submissions by legislators. Both were ordered printed for further consideration.
Senator Jim Guthrie used the committee's print hearing to introduce two legislative items he said address process and fee structures.
Guthrie described RS32831 as a vehicle to update liquor-license fees that he said in some cases have not been changed since 1947. He provided illustrative examples to show the scale of potential changes: for a city of 1,000 or fewer, a fee that now is $300 would go to $480 under the draft; a beer license now at $50 would be $80, and Guthrie said an inflation-adjusted comparison would make a $50 beer license equal roughly $726. "If we adjusted those fees for inflation ... a beer license that is $50 now would be $726," he told the committee, framing the proposal as aligning fees with enforcement needs after the Legislature changed transfer-fee treatment in prior years.
Guthrie also presented RS33041, a concurrent resolution proposing a new joint rule that would limit legislators to 25 drafts and 10 completed RS submissions per year, with explicit exceptions for corrections and related rework on the same topic. "There's volume that exceeds what is reasonable among some that are making it difficult for the flow of legislation as we get busy in the session," Guthrie said, and asked that the RS be printed for further discussion. Senators moved and seconded the introductions and the committee approved both items for printing.
Both measures were introduced to print for further consideration and potential hearings; no final policy or numeric changes were approved in committee at this meeting.
