Alabama HB593: Small Craft Alcoholic Beverage Producers; licensing of small craft distilleries, small craft wineries, and small craft alcoholic beverage producers authorized

What the bill says

An Act, Relating to alcoholic beverages; to amend Sections 28-4A-1 through 28-4A-6, Code of Alabama 1975, and redesignate these sections as Article 1 of Chapter 4A of Title 28, Code of Alabama 1975; to add Sections 28-4A-7, 28-4A-8, 28-4A-9 to Article 1 of Chapter 4A of Title 28, Code of Alabama 1975; to add Articles 2, 3, and 4 to Chapter 4A of Title 28, Code of Alabama 1975; to create the Alabama Small Craft Alcoholic Beverages Act…

From the enrolled text:

An Act, Relating to alcoholic beverages; to amend Sections 28-4A-1 through 28-4A-6, Code of Alabama 1975, and redesignate these sections as Article 1 of Chapter 4A of Title 28, Code of Alabama 1975; to add Sections 28-4A-7, 28-4A-8, 28-4A-9 to Article 1 of Chapter 4A of Title 28, Code of Alabama 1975; to add Articles 2, 3, and 4 to Chapter 4A of Title 28, Code of Alabama 1975; to create the Alabama Small Craft Alcoholic Beverages Act; to create new categories of licenses for small craft distilleries and small craft wineries and create a new license for small craft alcoholic beverage manufacturers that operate a brewpub, small craft winery, or small craft distillery or any combination of these; to provide for qualifications and license requirements; to permit a brewpub, small craft winery, or small craft distillery to allow tours of their manufacturing facilities; to provide for sales by a brewpub, small craft winery, or small craft distillery, at off-premises events open to the public; to provide that a brewpub, small craft winery, or small craft distillery, or any other alcoholic beverage manufacturer, may maintain a storage facility off the licensed manufacturing premises; to require the Alcoholic Beverage Control Board to administer and enforce the act; and to amend Section 28-3A-13.1, Code of Alabama 1975, to make conforming changes. BE …

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Sponsors

• Whitt, Andy (R, HD-006) · primary sponsor