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Failing to advance from committee, H.B. 663 defines “ready-to-drink cocktail” as a beverage that contains distilled spirits mixed with nonalcoholic beverages and may contain wine, is 12% or less alcohol by volume, and is contained in original packaging consisting of …Read More
H.B. 1217 provides for the direct delivery or shipment of beer, wine, or liquor to a consumer. Read More
House Bill 1072 seeks to increase the rate of the sales and use tax from 9% to 10% applied to certain sales of alcoholic beverages. Read More
S.F. 3767 / H.F. 4002 would allow brew pubs to be affiliated with a farm winery and authorize the issuance of retail licenses to farm wineries and brew pubs. Read More
Amended prior to passage, House Bill 777 seeks to renounce prohibition as the policy of this state in favor of the legal manufacture, sale, distribution and transportation of alcoholic beverages, except in counties that vote to institute prohibition after holding …Read More
Passing both legislative chambers, H.B. 1197, among many provisions, repeals a provision concerning residency requirements for beer wholesalers. Read More
Now under Senate consideration, H.F. 2277 would prohibit a brewer from requiring a wholesaler to assent to any unreasonable requirement, condition, understanding, or term of an agreement prohibiting the wholesaler from utilizing, or requiring the wholesaler to utilize, a …Read More
S.B. 511 would allow beer and hard cider sales by microbreweries to retailers, public venues, clubs, drinking establishments, holders of temporary permits and caterers and allowing such sales at special events to consumers. Read More
S.B. 230 seeks to allow a microbrewer who produces no more than 1,500 barrels per year to sell manufactured beverages at wholesale. Additionally, authorizes a licensed wholesaler to transfer manufactured beverages from a permitted microbrewery to any authorized …Read More
Amended on second reading to strike direct shipment provisions, Senate Bill 1041 seeks to establish direct-to-consumer alcoholic beverages permits authorizing the direct delivery of beer, wine, or liquor to a consumer. Read More
Pete Johnson serves as the State & Regulatory Affairs Manager for the Brewers Association (BA). He joined the BA at its inception in 2005, having previously worked as Programs Director for the Brewers Association of America. Before coming to the small brewing industry in 2001, Pete worked for 14 years with both state and federal elected officials in Pennsylvania and Washington, D.C.
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