Virginia House Bill 910 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: Introduced on January 9 2018 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2018-02-13 - Left in General Laws
Pending: House General Laws Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Prefiled) [HTML]

Alcoholic beverage control; Beer Franchise Act. Exempts Alcoholic beverage control; Beer Franchise Act. Exempts the purchase of a brewery that manufactures less than 5,000 barrels of beer per year from the requirement that the purchaser become obligated to all of the terms and conditions of the selling brewery's agreements with distributors in effect on the date of purchase. The bill reduces from 90 to 45 the number of days in which a brewery must provide a wholesaler prior written notice of any intent to amend, terminate, cancel, or not renew any agreement. The bill reduces from 60 to 30 the number of days in which a wholesaler may attempt to rectify the condition or conditions that led the brewery to provide notice of its intent to amend, terminate, cancel, or not renew the agreement. The bill reduces from 90 to 45 the number of days in which a panel of three arbitrators have to render a decision as to the amount of reasonable compensation a brewery must pay to a wholesaler for the value of an agreement that has been amended, terminated, canceled, or not renewed. The bill provides that in the event that the brewery involved in the arbitration manufactures less than 5,000 barrels of beer per year, the percentage of the total arbitration costs to be paid by the brewery shall equal the ratio of the brewery's annual sales to the wholesaler to the wholesaler's annual beer purchases. Current law requires that the costs of the arbitration in all situations be paid one-half by the wholesaler and one-half by the brewery. The bill contains an emergency clause. The bill contains

Alcoholic beverage control; breweries that manufacture less than 5,000 barrels of beer per year.

Del. Steven Landes [R]

Date	Chamber	Action
2018-02-13	House	Left in General Laws
2018-01-09	House	Referred to Committee on General Laws
2018-01-09	House	Prefiled and ordered printed with emergency clause; offered 01/10/18 18103029D

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
4	1	504	(n/a)	See Bill Text
4	1	506	(n/a)	See Bill Text
4	1	508	(n/a)	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+sum+HB910
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+ful+HB910+hil