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Bill benefiting craft distilleries clears Senate Regulated Industries

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The Senate Regulated Industries Committee OK’d a bill benefiting Florida’s craft distilleries, clearing a path for distillers to get their product to more people. The bill (SB 166) increases the amount of booze a distillery can product and still be considered “craft” to 250,000 gallons, up from 75,000; removes the limit on how many bottles distillers can sell to consumers, even though bottles can’t be bigger than 1.75 liters; and allows distillers to sell their liquor not just in an…

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Greg Steube’s ‘whiskey and Wheaties’ bill re-emerges in the House

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A proposal to allow grocers and big-box retailers to sell hard liquor in the same store as more wholesome wares lives on, according to state Rep. Greg Steube on Friday. The Sarasota Republican’s HB 107 was pulled from consideration during Week 6 of this year’s lawmaking session after intense pushback from public health advocates and liquor store industry lobbyists, but it appears to be ready for consideration in a meeting notice ahead of a House Regulatory Affairs Committee hearing set for Tuesday. The…

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As Dana Young pushes reworked House gaming plan, Senators file amendments

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When House Majority Leader Dana Young of Tampa filed her new, somewhat less provocative House gambling proposal, a careful observer could already hear the gears turning in the Senate. Though Young originally called her sprawling original plan merely a “work in progress,” it ruffled more than a few feather upon its release. The anti-gambling group No Casinos immediately came out with a statement trashing the plan, saying it provided for “the biggest expansion of gambling in the history of Florida,” with all “the social costs and crime…

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