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Members flag BYOB language in draft Senate bill as potentially discriminatory
Summary
Board members reviewed a draft Senate bill that includes BYOB provisions and flagged demographic and schooling requirements (e.g., local high school attendance or two years of college) as problematic and potentially discriminatory; they agreed the liquor board should avoid involvement in that legislation.
Early in the meeting, members reviewed a draft bill with BYOB language and raised constitutional and discriminatory concerns about the bill's demographic requirements.
Staff member (S1) described provisions in the draft that ask applicants "demographically where they're from" and asserted parts of the bill required applicants to have "attended high school here" or to have "attend[ed] 2 years of college here," calling the language "craziness" and warning the board to avoid entanglement: "I just don't think we would want to get involved in it." Board members agreed the language was problematic and that local regulation should steer clear of imposing statutory BYOB rules until the bill is clarified.
No formal position or vote on the draft bill was recorded at the meeting; members said they would avoid direct local implementation of unclear statutory mandates and would monitor any future referrals that might come to the board.
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