Bill Text: NH HB1578 | 2018 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: Relative to samples from nano breweries.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2018-05-02 - Refer to Interim Study, Motion Adopted, Voice Vote; 05/02/2018; Senate Journal 15 [HB1578 Detail]
Download: New_Hampshire-2018-HB1578-Amended.html
HB 1578 - AS AMENDED BY THE HOUSE
6Mar2018... 0705h
2018 SESSION
18-2303
08/06
HOUSE BILL 1578
AN ACT relative to samples from nano breweries.
SPONSORS: Rep. White, Graf. 13
COMMITTEE: Commerce and Consumer Affairs
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AMENDED ANALYSIS
This bill allows nano brewery licensees to distribute samples at a wine manufacutrer's facility for an annual fee.
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Explanation: Matter added to current law appears in bold italics.
Matter removed from current law appears [in brackets and struckthrough.]
Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.
6Mar2018... 0705h 18-2303
08/06
STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Eighteen
AN ACT relative to samples from nano breweries.
Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:
1 New Paragraph; Nano Breweries; Samples. Amend RSA 178:12-a by inserting after paragraph VII the following new paragraph:
VIII. For an additional annual fee of $120, any nano brewery licensee may transport its products to a wine manufacturers facility licensed under RSA 178:8, for the purpose of sampling or selling its products. Samples may be sold or given away. Retail sales made at the wine manufacturer’s facility shall be limited to products in their unopened original containers and to customers and persons of legal drinking age. Nano breweries shall be subject to the following additional limitations under this section:
(a) Nano brewery licensees shall be limited to one sampling event per day.
(b) Sampling and sales of the nano brewery licensee's products shall conform to the normal business hours of the winery licensee.
(c) Sample sizes shall be limited to one 4-ounce glass per label per person.
(d) Nano brewery licensee products brought to a sampling event shall be brought to the wine manufacturer’s facility on the day of the event and all such products shall be removed at the end of the event.
(e) Nano brewery licensees shall notify the commission of date, times, and location of each sampling event not less than 5 days before each event.
