NY Craft Beer Trail Designation Proposed
Assembly Bill 863 designates a portion of the state highway system as the North Country Craft Beer Trail. Read More
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Assembly Bill 863 designates a portion of the state highway system as the North Country Craft Beer Trail. Read More
Senate Bill 3675 would increase taxes on alcohol by 50 percent, allocating the increased revenue to a special fund to be used for the purposes of alcohol and substance abuse addiction prevention and recovery services and programs. Read More
Senate Bill 3863 establishes the gallon as the standard measurement for purposes of taxation of alcoholic beverages. Read More
S.B. 3870 seeks to exempt alcoholic beverages sold at retail by a licensed producer of alcoholic beverages to a customer where such sale occurs either at the brewery, winery or distillery where such alcoholic beverage was produced or as a …Read More
Senate Bill 3971 requires a refundable deposit on kegs and taps. Read More
Assembly Bill 4291 would provide a tax credit to taxpayers who grow the base ingredients necessary for the production of beer. Read More
S.B. 1533 seeks to expand the privileges of farm breweries, cideries, wineries and distilleries to allow for the sales of farm brewed alcoholic beverages for off-premises consumption. Read More
A.B. 1235 seeks to credit any on-premises licensees or any manufacturing licensee with on-premises retail privileges for each day they were unable to operate due to coronavirus and provides that such credits shall be used for such licensee’s license renewal. Read More
Assembly Bill 153 seeks to allow brewery supply stores to sell beer for off premises consumption. Read More
Senate Bill 386 would require that alcoholic beverages imported into New York be first delivered to a licensed New York state wholesaler and maintained at a premises or warehouse operated by the wholesaler for a period of twenty-four hours. 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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