NOTE: The governor signed this measure on 5/24/2012.
      
      
      SENATE BILL 12-118
      
      
      BY SENATOR(S) White, Jahn, Aguilar, Cadman, Foster, King S.;
      also REPRESENTATIVE(S) Acree, Beezley, Conti, DelGrosso,
      Gardner B., Holbert, Kerr A., Kerr J., Nikkel, Pabon, Ramirez, Scott,
      Singer, Tyler, Vigil, Wilson, Young.
      
      
      Concerning the repeal of the requirement for a hotel and
           restaurant alcohol license that twenty-five percent of
           sales must be from meals.
       
      
      Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Colorado:
      
           SECTION 1.  In Colorado Revised Statutes, 12-47-411, amend (1)
      (a) and (1) (b) as follows:
      
           12-47-411.  Hotel and restaurant license - definition - rules.
      (1)  Except as otherwise provided in subsection (2) of this section, a hotel
      and restaurant license shall be issued to persons selling alcohol beverages
      in the place where the alcohol beverages are to be consumed, subject to the
      following restrictions:
      
           (a)  Restaurants shall sell alcohol beverages as provided in this
      section only to customers of the restaurant and only if meals are actually
      and regularly served and provide not less than twenty-five percent of the
      gross income from sales of food and drink of the business of the licensed
      premises over any period of time of at least one year.
      
           (b)  Hotels shall sell alcohol beverages as provided in this section
      only to customers of the hotel and, except in hotel rooms, only on the
      licensed premises where meals are actually and regularly served and provide
      not less than twenty-five percent of the gross income from sales of food and
      drink of the business of the licensed premises over any period of time of
      at least one year.
      
           SECTION 2.  Act subject to petition - effective date. This act
      takes effect at 12:01 a.m. on the day following the expiration of the
      ninety-day period after final adjournment of the general assembly (August
      8, 2012, if adjournment sine die is on May 9, 2012); except that, if a
      referendum petition is filed pursuant to section 1 (3) of article V of the state
      constitution against this act or an item, section, or part of this act within
      such period, then the act, item, section, or part will not take effect unless
      approved by the people at the general election to be held in November 2012
      and, in such case, will take effect on the date of the official declaration of
      the vote thereon by the governor.
      
      
      
      
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      Brandon C. Shaffer                      Frank McNulty
      PRESIDENT OF                     SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE
      THE SENATE                         OF REPRESENTATIVES
      
      
      
      
      
      
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      Cindi L. Markwell                      Marilyn Eddins
      SECRETARY OF                 CHIEF CLERK OF THE HOUSE
      THE SENATE                         OF REPRESENTATIVES
      
      
      
      
                  APPROVED________________________________________
      
      
      
      
      
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                                    John W. Hickenlooper
                                    GOVERNOR OF THE STATE OF COLORADO