Category: Legislative & Regulatory
News relating to the state and federal politics of beer and regulatory structure
News COSTCO Gives Big to WA Measure
Costco Wholesale Corp. has shattered records for initiative spending, dumping more than $22 million into initiative I-1183 in Washington State, which would privatize the states alcohol business, including allowing spirits to be purchased directly from distillers.
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News BI Bill Offer Rejected by BA
The Beer Institute recently proposed a change to the federal bills H.R. 1236 and S. 534 being pushed by the Brewers Association. The BI offered Big Brewery support if the two bills were amended to keep the small brewer definition at 2 million barrels in exchange for elimination of excise tax for brewers under 16,000 bbls annual production and reduction to $3.50/bbl for brewers up to 100K bbls.
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