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OR Addiction Task Force Propsal Clears Committee

Clearing committee with amendments, House Bill 3610 seeks to establish the Task Force on Alcohol Pricing and Addiction Services to study issues related to alcohol addiction, including the benefits and drawbacks of imposing taxes on beer and wine. Read More

OR Beer Direct Shipping Bill Stalled in House

Failing a floor vote in the House, Senate Bill 616 would allow the holder of direct shipper permit to ship up to five cases of cider or malt beverages, each containing not more than nine liters, per month to an …Read More

RTD Bill Surfaces in Pennsylvania

Senate Bill 688 provides a definition of ready-to-drink cocktail to mean a beverage, composed in part of spirits, combined with other nonalcoholic ingredients, carbonated or still, by whatever name such beverage may be called, premixed and packaged in original containers, …Read More

The SC Craft Beer Economic Development Act Becomes Law

Signed into law, Senate Bill 566, the South Carolina Craft Beer Economic Development Act, provides that beer sold for on-premises consumption must be produced by the brewery on its permitted premises or transferred to the brewery, subject to the following …Read More

Oregon Direct Shipping Bill Moves to Senate

Passing the full House, H.B. 2013 would fully open direct to consumer shipping from out-of-state producers and creates a direct to retailer permit for out-of-state manufacturers of malt beverages, wine or cider to allow manufacturer to sell at wholesale and …Read More

Proposal to Require Imported Alcohol to Move Through a NY Wholesaler Inro’d

Senate Bill 6724 would require that alcoholic beverages imported into state be first delivered to a licensed state wholesaler and maintained at a premises or warehouse operated by the wholesaler for a period of twenty-four hours. Read More

NY Brewer Licenses Change Proposal Moves to Seante

Now under Senate consideration, Assembly Bill 6134 provides the liquor authority the ability to set the duration of brewer’s licenses, farm brewery licenses and restaurant-brewer licenses to three years. Read More

Sunday Sales Change Proposed in New York

Now under Senate consideration, A.B. 6941 would permit beer to be sold for off-premise consumption between the hours of 3AM and 5AM on Sundays. Read More

OK Distribution Agreements Bill Now in House-Senate Conference

Now in conference committee after passing the House in amended form, Senate Bill 422 modifies the procedures that must be in place for a brewer to terminate a distributor agreement with any beer distributor to include requiring the brewer to …Read More

OK Franchise Bill on Governor’s desk

Now before the Governor after being substituted in conference committee, H.B. 1715 1) defines seltzer and modifies the definition of beer to mean any beverage containing more than 0.5% of alcohol by volume and obtained by the alcoholic fermentation of …Read More

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Pete Johnson

State & Regulatory Affairs Manager

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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