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Yes: 61 • No: 2
NevadaAB40483rd Regular Session (2025)HouseWALLET
AN ACT relating to alcoholic beverages; authorizing a person who operates a brew pub to engage in certain activities concerning the sale of alcoholic beverages; revising provisions governing the conduct of certain investigations and hearings and the revocation and suspension of certain licenses relating to intoxicating liquor; revising the manner in which a payment from a retail liquor store to a wholesale dealer for delivery of certain alcoholic beverages must be made; requiring certain persons manufacturing liquor to preserve certain records for inspection and audit by the Department of Taxation; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.
Sponsored By: HowardMajority Whip Watts (Democratic)
Signed by Governor
BDR 52-651
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Bill Overview
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4 provisions identified: 0 benefits, 1 costs, 3 mixed.
Brew pubs: retail stores and volume caps
A brew pub operator can sell at up to two retail liquor stores under common control. The stores must be in the same county as the brew pub unless the county has fewer than 100,000 people. New stores obtained on or after 2025-01-01 must be at least 1,000 feet from a gaming establishment. Total brewing is capped at 40,000 barrels a year, plus up to 20,000 extra barrels for out-of-state sales. Sales for special events, on-premise, and sealed off-premise packages are capped at 5,000 barrels a year, with no more than 1,000 in kegs. You may get up to 20 special event transport permits each year. If you lawfully ran three retail stores on 2025-03-31, you may keep the third store so long as its license is not transferred.
New payment rules for alcohol deliveries
Unless a retailer elects to pay by credit card, wholesalers take payment by EFT from the retailer’s bank account. The EFT must finish within 30 days after delivery, and wholesalers cannot charge EFT fees. At delivery, both sides review the invoice; if correct, the retailer must sign it. If a retail account is delinquent, the wholesaler charges 1.5% of the unpaid balance on the 15th of the next month and each month after.
Tighter oversight of alcohol dealers and licenses
Wholesalers cannot lend to, invest in, furnish premises or equipment to, or run a retail liquor store. They may sell only for payment at delivery or with payment due by the 10th day of the next month; delinquent retailers can be required to pay cash on delivery. The Department can investigate on its own or after a verified complaint and can fine dealers: up to $500 for a first violation, up to $1,000 for a second, and up to $5,000 or license suspension for later violations in any 24 months. The Department and local boards can suspend or revoke licenses for reasons such as misstatements, selling to unlicensed buyers, or not paying excise taxes. After a hearing, a written decision is due within 10 days of submission and within 60 days after the citation was served.
Alcohol businesses: records and monthly reports
Brew pub operators who control retail liquor stores must file a monthly report. It must list malt beverage sales from each brew pub and each such retail store for the prior month. All licensed makers and retail liquor dealers must keep invoices and liquor lists for 4 years. Records must show kind, quantity, supplier name, place, and date, and be open to Department inspection.
Sponsors & Cosponsors
Sponsor
HowardMajority Whip Watts
Democratic • House
Cosponsors
Duy Nguyen
Democratic • House
Heidi Kasama
Republican • House
Selena Torres-Fossett
Democratic • House
Tracy Brown-May
Democratic • House
Rochelle T. Nguyen
Democratic • Senate
Roll Call Votes
Senate vote • 6/2/2025
Final Passage - Senate (2nd Reprint)
Yes: 19 • No: 2
House vote • 5/30/2025
Final Passage - Assembly (2nd Reprint)
Yes: 42 • No: 0
Actions Timeline
Chapter 425.
6/9/2025legislatureApproved by the Governor.
6/9/2025legislatureEnrolled and delivered to Governor.
6/5/2025legislatureIn Assembly. To enrollment.
6/2/2025HouseRead third time. Passed. Title approved. (Yeas: 19, Nays: 2.) To Assembly.
6/2/2025SenateRead second time.
6/1/2025SenatePlaced on Second Reading File.
6/1/2025SenateFrom committee: Do pass.
6/1/2025SenateRead first time. Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor. To committee.
5/31/2025SenateIn Senate.
5/31/2025SenateRead third time. Passed, as amended. Title approved, as amended. (Yeas: 42, Nays: None.) To Senate.
5/30/2025HouseFrom printer. To reengrossment. Reengrossed. Second reprint.
5/30/2025HouseRead third time. Amended. (Amend. No. 859.) To printer.
5/29/2025HousePlaced on General File.
5/29/2025HouseFrom committee: Amend, and do pass as amended.
5/29/2025HouseTo committee.
4/24/2025HouseFrom printer. To engrossment. Engrossed. First reprint.
4/24/2025HouseTo printer.
4/21/2025HouseRereferred to Committee on Ways and Means. Exemption effective.
4/21/2025HouseTaken from General File.
4/21/2025HouseRead second time. Amended. (Amend. No. 476.)
4/21/2025HousePlaced on Second Reading File.
4/21/2025HouseFrom committee: Amend, and do pass as amended.
4/21/2025HouseNotice of eligibility for exemption.
4/3/2025HouseFrom printer. To committee.
3/12/2025House
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