STATE OF ALABAMA
COUNTY OF LEE
NOTICE is hereby given that a bill the substance of which is as follows will be introduced in the 2015 Regular Session of the Legislature of Alabama and application for its passage and enactment will be made:
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED AN ACT
Relating to Lee County, relating to alcoholic beverages and the sale of wine in Lee County, to create the Lee County Wine Franchise Jobs Protection Act; to provide for business relations between suppliers and wholesalers of wine to preserve and expand jobs in Lee County in the wine industry; to require written agreements setting forth in full the supplier’s agreement with the wholesaler, and designating a specific exclusive sales territory; to provide for prohibited acts by the supplier and by the wholesaler; to provide for conditions of amendment, modification, resignation, cancellation, termination, failure to renew, or refusal to continue the agreement; to provide for the transfer of wholesaler’s business, for the establishment of nondiscriminatory, material, and reasonable qualifications and standards by suppliers, and prohibit interference with the transfer upon compliance with those standards; to provide for reasonable compensation upon supplier’s violation of the act, including a method of voluntary arbitration; to provide for civil actions for violations, damages, and venue; to provide for the burden of proof; to provide that the wholesaler may not waive rights set forth in this act; to provide that the act relates to existing and future agreements with wholesalers and suppliers as well as their successors and transferees; to provide that this act is cumulative; and to provide for an effective date.
Legal run 2/27/15, 3/6/15, 3/13/15 & 3/20/15