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H.R. 2520, the Distillery Innovation and Excise Tax Reform Act, seeks to reduce the current $13.50/proof gallon rate to $9.00/proof gallon, with the initial 100,000 gallons taxed at a rate of $2.70/proof gallon. All spirits producers would be eligible for …Read More
Awaiting gubernatorial action, H.B. 232 seeks to authorize manufacturers for low and high alcoholic content beverages and brewers for low alcoholic content beverages to sell certain quantities of these beverages at the facility where they are manufactured or brewed. Read More
Assembly Joint Resolution 109 designates the third weekend in October each year as “Shuck, Sip, and Slurp Weekend” to promote New Jersey oysters, wine, and beer. Read More
Failing to advance beyond committee level consideration, Senate Bill 452 sought to allow a brewpub to sell alcoholic beverages for on-premises and off-premises consumption and to create a license allowing limited production breweries to produce beer and operate a restaurant …Read More
Legislative Resolution 315 provides for a study of the contractual relationship between craft breweries and distributors, including whether there should be changes to allow craft beer manufacturers more flexibility when entering and exiting distribution contracts. Read More
Passing the full Assembly, Assembly Bill 7106 seeks to exempt brewers who produce less than 60,000 barrels of beer a year from the requirement to file annual information returns with the department of taxation and finance. Read More
Amended in Senate committee, A.B. 774 allows a permitted licensed beer manufacturer to conduct instructional tastings on the subject of beer at a certified farmers’ market under specified conditions. Read More
Signed by the Governor, L.B. 330, among other provisions, provides tax credits to beer manufacturers for the use of beer-related crops grown in-state. Read More
Passing the Senate, S.B. 1757 would prohibit the sale or offering for sale of any powdered or crystalline alcohol. Read More
Passing the Assembly and under Senate consideration, Assembly Bill 776 seeks to authorize a licensed beer manufacturer to apply to the Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control (ABC) for a brewery event permit that allows the sale of beer produced by …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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