Bills › 91st General Assembly
Where it is now
- Done: IntroducedJanuary 22, 2026
- Done: SubcommitteeJanuary 22, 2026
- Done: Senate committeeFebruary 11, 2026
- Skipped: Passes the SenateContinued as SF 2291
- Next: House committee
- Next: Passes the House
- Next: To the Governor
- Next: Signed into law
Became SF 2291 → Its progress continues under the new number. Go to SF 2291 What’s a funnel?
What’s in it
AI summary People who hold certain beer permits would pay different tax rates depending on where their beer comes from. Instead of paying the same amount for everything, they would pay $5.89 per barrel for imported beer and $1.86 per barrel for beer made in American breweries. These new rates would apply to any amount of beer, even if it is not a full barrel.1
Read the official explanation
_____ on all beer imported into this state for sale at wholesale and sold in this state at wholesale. Special class “A” beer permittees pay a like amount on all beer manufactured for consumption on the premises and on all beer sold at retail at the manufacturing premises for consumption off the premises. Other quantities and fractional parts of a barrel are taxed at a proportional rate.86 for every 31-gallon barrel of beer manufactured in an American brewery, defined in the bill, and at a like rate for any other quantity or for the fractional part of a barrel.
Senate subcommittee
Named January 22, 2026. On January 27, 2026 it recommended passage.
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Lobbying
7 for · 4 against · 7 undecided · Who →
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- HSB 309 Concerning the beer barrel tax91st General Assembly · Subcommittee recommends passageNearly identical
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