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F I S C A L I M P A C T R E P O R T
SPONSOR Silva
ORIGINAL DATE
LAST UPDATED
2/13/07
HB 1018
SHORT TITLE
Direct Wine Shipment Permits
SB
ANALYST C. Sanchez
APPROPRIATION (dollars in thousands)
Appropriation
Recurring
or Non-Rec
Fund
Affected
FY07
FY08
NFI
(Parenthesis ( ) Indicate Expenditure Decreases)
REVENUE (dollars in thousands)
Estimated Revenue
Recurring
or Non-Rec
Fund
Affected
FY07
FY08
FY09
Indeterminable
Indeterminable Recurring General Fund
Indeterminable
Indeterminable Recurring Alcohol Board
(Parenthesis ( ) Indicate Revenue Decreases)
Duplicates SB 1047
SOURCES OF INFORMATION
LFC Files
Responses Received From
Regulation and Licensing Department (RLD)
Attorney General’s Office (AGO)
Tax and Revenue Department (TRD)
SUMMARY
Synopsis of Bill
House Bill 1018 creates a direct shipping permit and provides for the collection of permit fees.
An eligible party, defined as “a licensee with a winegrower’s license or a retailer’s license or a
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person licensed in a state other than New Mexico that holds a winery license or a retailer’s
license that allows the winery or retail licensee to sell wine directly to consumers", may apply
for and receive a direct wine shipment permit. The proposed permitee would be required to
submit an application for permitting and would be required to renew the permit on an annual
basis. The fee for the permit would be $50.00 per year.
The direct wine shipment permit would allow shipment of not more than twenty-four nine liter
cases of wine annually to a New Mexico resident who is twenty-one years of age or older, for
personal consumption and not for resale. The shipments would be required to carry a label
stating “CONTAINS ALCOHOL SIGNATURE OF PERSON 21 YEARS OR OLDER
REQUIRED FOR DELIVERY".
The permitee would be required to register with the taxation and revenue department for the
payment of liquor excise taxes and gross receipts taxes; submit to New Mexico jurisdiction for
legal action arising out of the shipment of wine; pay the liquor excise taxes due by July 25 of
each year; pay the gross receipts taxes due by the twenty-fifth day of each month; report the
amount of wine sold annually to the director and to the taxation and revenue department; and
submit to an audit by taxation and revenue upon notice and during usual business hours.
HB 1018 would also amend Section 60-7A-3 of the Liquor Control Act to remove and replace
paragraph E, which provides that any individual or licensee in a state that permits reciprocal
shipping may ship for personal use, but not for resale, not more than two cases of wine per
month, each case containing no more than nine liters, to any individual not a minor. The
shipping container is required to be labeled to indicate that delivery cannot be made to a minor or
to intoxicated persons. The replacement paragraph E states that the holder of a direct wine
shipment permit may ship up to twenty-four nine-liter cases of wine annually to a person twenty-
one years of age or older for personal consumption and not for resale.
FISCAL IMPLICATIONS
House Bill 1018 would slightly increase revenues for the Tax and Revenues Department and the
Alcohol and Gaming Division. However the amount of revenue is indeterminable.
SIGNIFICANT ISSUES
HB 1018 creates a new type of permit that would allow direct shipment of wine into and out of
the state of New Mexico upon submission of an application and payment of an annual fee of
$50.00.
HB 1018 creates a new section, Section 60-6A-11. In paragraph E of the new material, the
definition of “eligible party" includes the holder of a retailer’s license in the class of persons who
would be able to apply for and receive a permit. Under current definitions in the Liquor Control
Act, a retailer is a person licensed under the Liquor Control Act who sells, or offers for sale
alcoholic beverages in unbroken packages for consumption and not for resale off the licensed
premises. In New Mexico, holders of a retailer’s license include liquor stores, grocery stores and
convenience stores. The language of the bill would seem to permit liquor stores, grocery stores
or convenience stores that hold a retailer’s license to ship directly to the consumer both in New
Mexico and to other states. The language of the bill does not prohibit a liquor store, grocery
store or a convenience store from “shipping" wine to a New Mexico resident by directly
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delivering the wine from the licensee’s premises to the consumer’s home.
New Mexico currently utilizes a three-tier system for the distribution of alcoholic beverages.
The manufacturer is required to sell only to a licensed wholesaler, the wholesaler sells only to
licensed dispenser’s, retailers and restaurants, the dispenser’s, retailers and restaurants may sell
to the public. The creation of a direct shipment permit would seemingly circumvent this system
although it does provide a mechanism for the collection of previously uncollected revenue in the
form of liquor excise and gross receipts taxes. Revenue would also be generated through the
collection of the $50.00 annual permit fee. Exact dollar amounts generated are unknown as this
would be dependent upon the number of applicants requesting licensure.
ADMINISTRATIVE IMPLICATIONS
The permit applications would need to be carefully reviewed for compliance and collection of
required fees. Additionally, renewal applications would need to be generated and reviewed for
compliance and collection of taxes and fees.
DUPLICATION,
SB 1047
OTHER SUBSTANTIVE ISSUES
Current law allows liquor licensees in other states to ship up to two cases of wine to New Mexico
residents for their personal consumption, if the state affords New Mexico licensees equal
reciprocal shipping privileges. NMSA Section 60-7A-3E. The Liquor Control Act does not apply
to those shipments. This bill would repeal that section and implement a permitting requirement
in order to ship properly labeled wine into New Mexico.
Current law does not appear to allow the shipment of wine within this state by New Mexico
licensees. This bill would also allow New Mexico winegrower’s or retailers licensees to conduct
that activity pursuant to a “direct wine shipment permit".
WHAT WILL BE THE CONSEQUENCES OF NOT ENACTING THIS BILL
Status Quo
POSSIBLE QUESTIONS
How will this bill affect wine consumption in New Mexico.
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