HB 1563 - DIGEST

Permits an enrolled student, who is at least eighteen years old, to taste alcoholic beverages if he or she conducts the tasting: (1) On the premises of the college or university where he or she is enrolled; or

(2) On a field trip to a grape-growing area or production facility if he or she is accompanied by a faculty or staff member with a class 12 or 13 alcohol server permit.

Permits a licensee holding a domestic winery license to allow volunteers, between eighteen and twenty-one years old, to engage in wine-production related work at the winery's location, if the volunteer is enrolled as a student: (1) At a community or technical college, regional university, or state university with a special permit; and

(2) In a required or elective class that is part of a culinary, sommelier, wine business, enology, viticulture, wine technology, beer technology, or spirituous technology-related degree program.