All of you who have been keeping an eye on our News Page (http://www.alahomebrewing.org/news) already know that HB354, The Homebrewing Legalization Bill, was reported favorably by the House Economic Development & Tourism Committee last week, and is now awaiting a full vote in the House. The next steps are for all of our supporters from [...]
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Homebrewing Legalization Update
I received the following email from the Alabama Homebrewing Legalization group yesterday. Please read and consider contacting the committee members expressing your support for HB354. The Homebrewing Legalization bill is ready to take its next step! HB354 is on the House Economic Development & Tourism Committee’s agenda for a vote tomorrow afternoon. I know [...]
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HB354 – The Alabama Homebrewing Legalization Bill Update
I received the following email from Right to Brew last night… We are excited to report that House bill HB354 was filed today to legalize Homebrewing in Alabama. With your help, it will pass into law, and cause Alabama to finally join the 48 other states that have already legalized homebrewing. The bill has [...]
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Gourmet Bottle Bill Passes Senate Committee
The Gourmet Bottle Bill, or SB294, has passed the Senate Small Business committee and received a second reading on the floor of the Senate. In addition, the GBB has had its first reading on the floor of the House as HB264. Read more about the legislative steps here. If you have not contacted your representative [...]
Montgomery Assigns Numbers to Gourmet Bottle Bill
The House of Representatives has given the Gourmet Bottle Bill “HB264″ while the Senate has given the bill “SB294″. The House sponsors are Jim Barton, Chad Fincher, Jamie Ison and David Sessions. The Senate sponsor is Paul Sanford.
What to expect Tuesday
Representative Mike Ball has agreed to handle SB192 on the floor of the House. Our bill will be introduced with a substitute pending. (pdf of the substitute). The substitute favored by the House Committee on Economic Development and Tourism must be approved by the full House, so a motion to adopt the substitute will come [...]
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Homebrew legalization fails
After some lively debate, HB266 failed a floor vote today 28-45. I’m really quite confused. Some of the No votes don’t even make sense. We’ll put the vote results in the Find Your Legislator tool shortly. HB266 is not a Free the Hops bill.
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The new legislative leaders, on beer
The Republican caucus in the Alabama Senate and House, now in the majority party for both chambers, chose their nominees for Senate Pro Tem and House Speaker recently. This is one of the major reasons why political parties want a majority. As a caucus, they decide who they will support for these positions as a [...]
HB406 passes House committee
Apparently almost everyone with posting privileges was in Montgomery advocating for our bill, so sorry this is late. HB406, The Brewery Modernization Act, received a favorable report from the House Committee on Tourism and Travel this afternoon after a public hearing. Our sponsor, Representative Oliver Robinson, introduced the bill. Free the Hop members Stuart Carter, [...]
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