Alcoholic Beverages - As enacted, authorizes a licensee that holds more than a 50 percent ownership interest in a manufacturer and a winery that are located on the same deeded property to offer product tastings and make , the official text

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                            PUBLIC CHAPTER NO. 358

                                                    SENATE BILL NO. 111

                                                              By Lowe

                                             Substituted for: House Bill No. 142

                                                       By McCalmon, Davis

AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 57, relative to alcoholic beverages.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF TENNESSEE:

          SECTION 1. Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 57, Chapter 3, Part 2, is amended by adding
the following new section:

                    (a) Notwithstanding another law to the contrary, a winery licensed under§ 57-3-207
          and a manufacturer licensed under § 57-3-202 operating on overlapping premises may
          designate an area of the entities' respective premises that overlap each other for purposes of
          offering product tastings and making retail sales for consumption on or off of such premises if:

                              (1) The premises of the winery as defined in§ 57-3-207(f)(3) and the premises
                    of the manufacturer as defined in§ 57-3-202(i)(4)(B):

                                         (A) Are contiguous; and

                                         (B) Are located on the same deeded property;

                               (2) The licensee shares a common ownership of at least fifty-one percent (51 %)
                    in both the winery and manufacturer; and

                              (3) All alcoholic beverages and wine sold by the winery and manufacturer within
                    such overlapping premises are manufactured or produced on-site at the same deeded
                    property by either the winery or manufacturer sharing the overlapping premises.

                    (b) For purposes of this section, "overlapping premises" does not include the bonded
          premises of the winery or the manufact_urer.

          SECTION 2. This act takes effect upon becoming a law, the public welfare requiring it.
         SENATE BILL NO. 111

PASSED:  April 17, 2025

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                         "\                        RAN McNALLY

                             SPEAKER OF THE SENATE

                                                         TON, SPEAKER
                                                   REPRESENTATIVES

qJ,. APPROVED this  ~ day of                       2025

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                               BILL LEE, GOVERNOR