HB 457 — An Act amending the act of April 12, 1951 (P.L.90, No.21), known as the Liquor Code, in distilleries, wineries, bonded warehouses, bailees for hire and transporters for hire, further providing for containers to be labeled.

PRINTER'S NO.   439

                     THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA



                         HOUSE BILL
                         No. 457
                                               Session of
                                                 2025

     INTRODUCED BY GIRAL, KHAN, HILL-EVANS, OTTEN, RABB, HOWARD,
        KENYATTA, HADDOCK AND PARKER, FEBRUARY 3, 2025

     REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON LIQUOR CONTROL, FEBRUARY 3, 2025


                                    AN ACT
 1   Amending the act of April 12, 1951 (P.L.90, No.21), entitled "An
 2      act relating to alcoholic liquors, alcohol and malt and
 3      brewed beverages; amending, revising, consolidating and
 4      changing the laws relating thereto; regulating and
 5      restricting the manufacture, purchase, sale, possession,
 6      consumption, importation, transportation, furnishing, holding
 7      in bond, holding in storage, traffic in and use of alcoholic
 8      liquors, alcohol and malt and brewed beverages and the
 9      persons engaged or employed therein; defining the powers and
10      duties of the Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board; providing
11      for the establishment and operation of State liquor stores,
12      for the payment of certain license fees to the respective
13      municipalities and townships, for the abatement of certain
14      nuisances and, in certain cases, for search and seizure
15      without warrant; prescribing penalties and forfeitures;
16      providing for local option, and repealing existing laws," in
17      distilleries, wineries, bonded warehouses, bailees for hire
18      and transporters for hire, further providing for containers
19      to be labeled.
20      The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
21   hereby enacts as follows:
22      Section 1.    Section 510 of the act of April 12, 1951 (P.L.90,
23   No.21), known as the Liquor Code, is amended to read:
24      Section 510.    Containers To Be Labeled.--All persons, except
25   as exempted by section five hundred two hereof, manufacturing,
26   producing, distilling, developing or using in the process of
 1   manufacture, denaturing, redistilling, recovering, rectifying,
 2   blending, reusing, holding in bond, holding in storage as bailee
 3   for hire, or transporting for hire of alcohol or liquor under
 4   the provisions of this article, shall securely and permanently
 5   attach to every container ready for shipment thereof as the same
 6   is manufactured, produced, distilled, developed, denatured,
 7   redistilled, recovered, rectified, blended, reused, a label
 8   stating the name of the manufacturer, kind and quantity of
 9   alcohol or liquor contained therein, and the date of its
10   manufacture, together with the number of the license authorizing
11   the manufacture thereof[,] and a conspicuous label with the
12   words: "WARNING: There is a direct link between alcohol and
13   fatal cancers," and all persons possessing such alcohol or
14   liquor in wholesale quantities shall securely keep and maintain
15   such [label] labels thereon.
16      Section 2.   This act shall take effect in 60 days.




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