FLORIDA BEVERAGE LEGISLATION: 2024 PRE-SESSION REVIEW OF BEVERAGE BILLS

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The 2024 Session of the Florida Legislature will include consideration of a number of bills affecting breweries, wineries, distilleries, retailers and consumers.

The 2024 regular session of the Florida Legislature kicks off Tuesday, January 9, 2024. This 2-month session will see the consideration of a number of bills that could affect the Florida beverage industry as soon as July.

For a refresher on how a bill goes from being introduced to becoming law in Florida, check out the Florida Senate’s Idea-to-Law Flowchart and the Florida League of City’s short video: Florida’s Legislative Process 101.

The following chart provides a summary of this session’s beverage-focused bills. We’ll check back in on the status of these bills at end of the session.

2024 FLORIDA BEVERAGE BILLS - PRE-SESSION

NUMBER	TITLE	SUMMARY	FILED BY	LAST ACTION
SB 384	Spirituous Beverages	Increasing the maximum allowable size of distilled spirits containers; authorizing certain distilleries and primary sources of American supply to conduct beverage tastings upon certain licensed premises under certain circumstances, etc.	Hooper	Last Action: 11/15/2023 S Referred to Regulated Industries; Commerce and Tourism; Rules
SB 574	In-store Servicing of Alcoholic Beverages	Revising applicability of provisions regulating in-store servicing of wine to include products with a specified percentage of alcohol; authorizing the Division of Alcoholic Beverages and Tobacco of the Department of Business and Professional Regulation to adopt rules, etc.	Burgess	Last Action: 12/5/2023 S Referred to Regulated Industries; Commerce and Tourism; Rules
HB 583	Individual Wine Containers	Revises exception to maximum allowable capacity for individual container of wine sold in this state.	LaMarca	Last Action: 11/30/2023 H Now in Regulatory Reform & Economic Development Subcommittee
HB 603	Distilled Spirits	Increases size of distilled spirits containers that may be sold or distributed; authorizes entities to conduct tastings & sales at specified locations; provides requirements related to issuance of permits; provides broker or sales agent may be used in place of distillery representative at spirituous beverage tasting.	Duggan	Last Action: 11/30/2023 H Now in Regulatory Reform & Economic Development Subcommittee
HB 709	In-store Servicing of Alcoholic Beverages	Revises applicability of provisions regulating in-store servicing of wine to include distilled spirits with specified percentage of alcohol.	Rizo	Last Action: 12/19/2023 H Now in Regulatory Reform & Economic Development Subcommittee
HB 1107	Beverage Law	Provides & revises provisions related to the Beverage Law, including definitions, requirements for certain manufacturers of malt beverages, craft breweries, & contract brewing & alternating proprietorship brewing.	Yeager	Last Action: 1/2/2024 H Filed
SB 1134	Individual Wine Containers	vising the limitation on the size of individual wine containers to glass containers only, etc.	Trumbull	Last Action: 1/2/2024 S Filed
SB 1348	Beverage Law	Authorizing manufacturers of malt beverages to transfer malt beverages to another manufacturer for brewing under certain conditions; deleting the definition of the term “keg”; revising a provision to limit the number of barrels, rather than kegs, of malt beverages certain vendors may brew annually; revising surety bond requirements for payment of taxes; providing requirements for contract brewing and alternating proprietorship brewing, etc.	DiCeglie	Last Action: 1/4/2024 S Filed
NUMBER	TITLE	SUMMARY	FILED BY	LAST ACTION

Do you have any questions about how these proposed changes to Florida Beverage Laws could affect your beverage business? Contact us to schedule a consultation with a beverage attorney.

Because we’re attorneys: Disclaimer. Originally posted 01/06/2024.

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