What is the Alcohol Policy Classification System?
The Alcohol Policy Classification System (APCS) is a tool for organizing and retrieving bills and regulations in the APIS Enacted Bills and Adopted Regulations section. (Note that coverage beyond 2003 is not currently being added to the Enacted Bills and Adopted Regulations section.) All bills and regulations are assigned by APIS Staff to: • One or more alcohol policy areas (organized into nine broad categories), and • When applicable, one or more cross-cutting dimensions (organized into five broad categories). Together, these nine alcohol policy areas and five cross-cutting dimensions (and their subcategories) are the Alcohol Policy Classification System. The Enacted Bills and Adopted Regulations section can be searched by these alcohol policy areas and cross-cutting dimensions for 2002 and 2003 only. Doing so will help ensure that your search yields bills and regulations that address area(s) and/or dimension(s) of interest to you—even if the language of bills/regulations that address
