Senate back in session, takes up ABC funding bill…
The Senate is back in session, and is now debating HB 450a, the bill to fund the state's Alcohol Beverage Control operation and allow it to add back 10 officers to return to its staffing level from decades ago. Alcoholic beverage license fees of $1.5 million would be shifted from the state's general fund to set up the new ABC fund. ABC enforcement is now down to just one officer, due to cuts over the years.