HB 499: Beverage Law
GENERAL BILL by Yeager
Beverage Law; Authorizes the transferring of malt beverages & other alcoholic beverages to licensed facility; authorizes craft breweries to sell & deliver certain number of barrels of malt beverages to licensed vendor; authorizes craft breweries to conduct tastings & sales of malt beverages at specified events; requires Division of Alcoholic Beverages & Tobacco of DBPR to issue permit for such events; authorizes craft breweries that deliver malt beverages to transport such beverages; provides for distribution agreement between beer distributor & craft brewery; provides for territory representation by distributors who enter into distribution agreements; requires craft brewery to repurchase its product upon termination of distribution agreement; requires arbitration of specified disputes; authorizes transfer of beer or malt beverages between contract brewer & contracting brewer in specified amount pursuant to contract brewing agreement; provides that licensed manufacturer seeking to engage in contract brewing must meet certain requirements; requires specified qualification & submitting of certain information before engaging in alternating proprietorship brewing.
Last Action: 2/19/2025 House - Now in Industries & Professional Activities Subcommittee
Bill Text: PDF
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Bill History
Date Chamber Action 2/10/2025 House • Filed
2/19/2025 House • Referred to Industries & Professional Activities Subcommittee
• Referred to State Administration Budget Subcommittee
• Referred to Commerce Committee
• Now in Industries & Professional Activities Subcommittee
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HB 499, Original Filed Version (Current Bill Version) Posted 2/10/2025 at 11:57 AM
Bill Text: PDF Analyses: None Citations - Statutes (9)
Citation Catchline Location in Bill Location In Bill Help 561.01 Definitions. Page 4 (pdf) 561.221 Licensing of manufacturers and distributors as vendors and of vendors as manufacturers; conditions and limitations. Page 4 (pdf) 561.37 Bond for payment of taxes. Page 7 (pdf) 561.5101 Come-to-rest requirement; exceptions; penalties. Page 10 (pdf) 561.57 Deliveries by licensees. Page 10 (pdf) 563.02 License fees; vendors; manufacturers and distributors. Page 11 (pdf) 563.022 Relations between beer distributors and manufacturers. Page 12 (pdf) 563.023 Page 12 (pdf) 563.042 Page 22 (pdf)