Amends TCA Title 57, Chapter 4, Part 1.

ON APRIL 14, 2021, THE HOUSE ADOPTED AMENDMENT #1 AND PASSED HOUSE BILL 682, AS AMENDED. AMENDMENT #1 adds to the descriptive characteristics for a historic performing arts center, which apply to Ryman Auditorium. This amendment also adds a requirement that Ryman Auditorium adhere to the following license fee schedule relative to on-premise consumption of alcoholic beverages: (1) Pay the appropriate license fee assessed for historic performing arts centers; and (2) The premises of Ryman Auditorium that maintains a restaurant that is physically separate from the music hall, with its own kitchen, menu of prepared food, and patron seating, must also pay the appropriate restaurant license fee to serve alcoholic beverages; provided, however, that such facility applying for a renewal of its license must pay the appropriate limited service restaurant license fee when the gross revenue from the previous year derived from prepared food sales is 50 percent or less than the gross revenue from the sale of alcoholic beverages.