Fiscal Note
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Declaring certain alcohol licensed establishments ineligible to extend closing hours to 4:00 a.m. from July 15, 2024, through July 19, 2024, pursuant to 2023 Wisconsin Act 73, which permits extended closing hours during the 2024 Republican National Convention held in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
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WHEREAS, current law requires establishments operating under the following classifications: Class “B” beer, “Class B” liquor, and/or “Class C” wine retail license (e.g. bars and restaurants); manufacturer’s/rectifier’s, brewery, and winery premises and any associated full-service retail outlets under Wis. Stats. §§ 125.52, 125.29 and 125.53, to close between the hours of 2:00 a.m. and 6:00 a.m., Monday through Friday, and between 2:30 a.m. and 6:00 a.m., Saturday and Sunday; and
WHEREAS, 2023 Wisconsin Act 73 extended the closing hours of the aforementioned license classifications in fourteen (14) southeast Wisconsin municipalities for the period July 15, 2025, through July 19, 2024, mandating a closing time between the hours of 4:00 a.m. and 6:00 a.m.; and
WHEREAS, “Southeast Wisconsin municipality” means a municipality, any part of which is located within one of fourteen (14) counties, with Dane County being one of the named counties; and,
WHEREAS, 2023 Wisconsin Act 73 states that if a municipality does not want the extended closing hours for its licensees and permittees the municipality may, by adoption of an ordinance, opt out of the extended closing hours. If a municipality does not wish to opt out, but does not want the extended closing ours to apply to all liquor licensed establishments located in the municipality, the Act also allows a municipality to establish a process to designate, and may so designate, any licensee holding a Class “B” beer, “Class B” liquor and/or Class “C” wine license, and any permittee with a manufacturer’s/rectifier’s, brewery or winery premises, as ineligible or disqualified from the...
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