Distillery Revitalization Act

Bill: 117-hr-4829
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. Kilmer, Derek [D-WA-6]
Introduced: 2021-07-29
Policy area: Commerce
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures

Alcoholic beverages

Business expenses

Cardiovascular and respiratory health

Emergency medical services and trauma care

Food industry and services

Infectious and parasitic diseases

Retail and wholesale trades

Small Business Administration

Small business
Latest action: action_date: 2021-07-29
text: Referred to the House Committee on Small Business.

Summaries:
action_date: 2021-07-29
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p><b>Distillery Revitalization Act</b></p> <p>This bill requires the Small Business Administration to modify the Restaurant Revitalization Program, established to support food and beverage purveyors in response to COVID-19, to allow certain distilleries to participate in the program. </p> <p>To be program-eligible, a distillery must have at least 33% of revenue from on-site sales. However, certain states limit the percentage of revenue that a distillery may have from on-site sales to less than 33%. For a distillery located in such a state, the bill allows the distillery to use its combined revenue from on-site sales and sales to retailers for on-site sales to reach the 33% threshold.</p>

tv_txt: I 117th CONGRESS 1st Session H. R. 4829 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES July 29, 2021 Mr. Kilmer (for himself, Ms. DelBene , Ms. Strickland , Mr. Smith of Washington , Mr. Larsen of Washington , and Ms. Schrier ) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Small Business A BILL To require the Administrator of the Small Business Administration make a technical correction to the Restaurant Revitalization program to allow distilleries that are prohibited by State law from meeting the onsite sales requirements under the program to participate in the program.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Distillery Revitalization Act . 2. Restaurant Revitalization The Administrator of the Small Business Administration shall amend the rules relating to the Restaurant Revitalization program under section 5003 of the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 ( Public Law 117–2 ; 135 Stat. 85; 15 U.S.C. 9009c ) to allow a distillery that is located in a State the law of which sets a limit on the percentage of the gross receipts of a distillery that may come from onsite sales that is less than 33 percent to qualify as an eligible entity under such section if the combined total of the gross receipts of the distillery from onsite sales and sales to retailers for onsite sale is not less than 33 percent.