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Yes: 61 • No: 2
NevadaSB43983rd Regular Session (2025)SenateWALLET
AN ACT relating to alcoholic beverages; authorizing an estate distillery to sell at retail alcoholic beverages not manufactured at the estate distillery; authorizing an estate distillery to receive, store and bottle certain spirits; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.
Sponsored By: Senate Committee on Commerce and Labor
Signed by Governor
BDR 52-1108
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Bill Overview
Analyzed Economic Effects
5 provisions identified: 2 benefits, 1 costs, 2 mixed.
Licenses and what distilleries can make
The law lets you run an estate distillery if you get a state liquor license and follow all rules. You can blend, age, store, and bottle the spirits you make on site. Your on-site spirits cannot be made from neutral or distilled spirits from another maker unless another law allows it. You may blend or distill wine or malt drinks only if they come from a licensed brewpub or from a winery that uses at least 25% Nevada-grown fruit or Nevada honey.
Caps on wholesale and export volumes
An estate distillery may sell and transport no more than 75,000 cases per year in Nevada to licensed wholesale dealers. A person may manufacture for export to other states no more than 400,000 cases per year across all estate distilleries they operate.
Tasting room and retail sales rules
An estate distillery can sell its spirits for on-site or off-site use. It may also sell drinks it did not make if it has a local retail license and follows state rules. Off-site buyers are limited to 1 case per month and 6 cases per year; the distillery’s off-site sales may not exceed 7,500 cases a year. Samples on the premises are limited to 4 fluid ounces per person per day. Spirits bought on the premises for off-site use may not be resold, and the distillery must post a clear notice.
Donate spirits to charities with permit
An estate distillery may donate spirits it makes to charitable or nonprofit groups. It must get a special transport permit from the Department of Taxation and follow the permit’s terms.
Rules for bulk shipments and taxes
An estate distillery can transfer bulk spirits it makes to a supplier; tax is due only when those spirits are rectified, bottled for Nevada sale, and removed from the supplier’s bonded premises. These transfers do not count toward the 75,000-case wholesale cap or the 400,000-case export cap. The distillery can receive bulk wine or malt drinks from licensed brewpubs, qualifying wineries, or licensed wholesale dealers for distilling or blending; tax is due after processing, bottling for Nevada sale, and removal from bonded premises. It may receive bulk neutral or distilled spirits from non-affiliate suppliers for storage and bottling, but must keep them clearly separate from other products. The distillery must notify the Department of Taxation before receiving bulk shipments. Spirits must be bottled in original packages before they can be sold in Nevada.
Sponsors & Cosponsors
Sponsor
Senate Committee on Commerce and Labor
Affiliation unavailable
Cosponsors
There are no cosponsors for this bill.
Roll Call Votes
House vote • 5/21/2025
Final Passage - Assembly (1st Reprint)
Yes: 42 • No: 0
Senate vote • 4/16/2025
Final Passage - Senate (1st Reprint)
Yes: 19 • No: 2
Actions Timeline
Chapter 140.
5/30/2025legislatureApproved by the Governor.
5/30/2025legislatureEnrolled and delivered to Governor.
5/27/2025legislatureTo enrollment.
5/22/2025SenateIn Senate.
5/21/2025SenateRead third time. Passed. Title approved. (Yeas: 42, Nays: None.) To Senate.
5/21/2025HouseTaken from General File. Placed on General File for next legislative day.
5/20/2025HouseTaken from General File. Placed on General File for next legislative day.
5/19/2025HouseTaken from General File. Placed on General File for next legislative day.
5/16/2025HouseTaken from General File. Placed on General File for next legislative day.
5/15/2025HouseTaken from General File. Placed on General File for next legislative day.
5/14/2025HouseRead second time.
5/12/2025HouseFrom committee: Do pass.
5/8/2025HouseRead first time. Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor. To committee.
4/17/2025HouseIn Assembly.
4/17/2025HouseRead third time. Passed, as amended. Title approved, as amended. (Yeas: 19, Nays: 2.) To Assembly.
4/16/2025SenateFrom printer. To engrossment. Engrossed. First reprint.
4/16/2025SenateRead second time. Amended. (Amend. No. 342.) To printer.
4/15/2025SenatePlaced on Second Reading File.
4/15/2025SenateFrom committee: Amend, and do pass as amended.
4/15/2025SenateFrom printer. To committee.
3/26/2025SenateRead first time. Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor. To printer.
3/24/2025Senate
Bill Text
As Enrolled
As Introduced
Reprint 1
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