The Florida Senate

SB 1740: Craft Brewing

GENERAL BILL by Truenow

Craft Brewing; Authorizing a licensed craft brewery to conduct tastings and sales of malt beverages at certain events; deleting a requirement that manufacturers and brewers file a surety bond with the division; revising a requirement for certain manufacturers to pay a specified license tax; authorizing contract brewers to transfer malt beverages to contracting brewers’ facilities up to a specified amount, etc.

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• Bill History

  Date	Chamber	Action
  1/9/2026	Senate	• Filed

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• SB 1740, Original Filed Version (Current Bill Version) Posted 1/9/2026 at 5:02 PM

  Bill Text:	Web Page | PDF

  Analyses:	None

  Citations - Statutes (6)

  Citation	Catchline	Location in Bill Location In Bill Help
  561.221	Licensing of manufacturers and distributors as vendors and of vendors as manufacturers; conditions and limitations.	Page 3 (pdf)
  561.37	Bond for payment of taxes.	Page 3 (pdf)
  563.02	License fees; vendors; manufacturers and distributors.	Page 5 (pdf)
  563.042		Page 6 (pdf)
  563.06	Malt beverages; imprint on individual container; size of containers; exemptions.	Page 9 (pdf)
  563.13	Florida brewery directional signs; fees.	Page 11 (pdf)

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