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Read. Follow. Verify.Alabama HB 593 establishes licensing for small craft distilleries, small craft wineries, and hybrid craft complexes
Last action · April 16, 2026: EnactedSponsor: Andy Whitt
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What This Bill Does
This act creates new licensing categories for small craft distilleries, small craft wineries, and hybrid craft beverage complexes, allowing them to manufacture, conduct tours, offer tastings, and sell products under oversight by the Alcoholic Beverage Control Board starting October 1, 2026. It renames the Alabama Act to the Alabama Small Craft Alcoholic Beverages Act and updates rules governing alcohol delivery services.
Changes commercial and operational rules for small-scale alcoholic beverage producers across the state by establishing annual licensing fees, volume limits, storage provisions, and delivery standards.
Who It Affects
Groups the bill's text affects, as described in the record. Being affected is not a position for or against it.
Small craft distilleries
Subject to new licensing requirements, production volume caps, fee structures, and operational rules.
Small craft wineries
Subject to new licensing standards, manufacturing limits, tasting rules, and annual fees.
Delivery service licensees
Must comply with revised background check rules, insurance thresholds, delivery quantity caps, and reporting mandates.
Alcoholic Beverage Control Board
Tasked with administering, enforcing, and adopting rules to implement the new licensing and regulatory framework.
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Votes, people, money & the original sourceWhere This Stands
Current status: Became law.
Procedural history
25 actions- Apr 16, 2026HouseEnrolledEnacted
- Apr 8, 2026SenateSignature Requested
- Apr 8, 2026HouseEnrolledDelivered to Governor
- Apr 8, 2026HouseEnrolled
- Apr 7, 2026HouseReady to Enroll
- Apr 7, 2026HouseReady to Enroll
Show 19 earlier actions
- Apr 7, 2026HouseWhitt Motion to Concur In and Adopt Senate Amendment - Adopted Roll Call 1259
- Apr 7, 2026SenateFloorMotion to Read a Third Time and Pass as Amended - Adopted Roll Call 1202
- Apr 7, 2026SenateChesteen motion to Adopt - Adopted Roll Call 1201
- Apr 7, 2026SenateChesteen 1st Amendment Offered
- Apr 7, 2026SenateCarried Over to the Call of the Chair
- Apr 7, 2026SenateThird Reading in Second House
- Apr 2, 2026SenateRead for the Second Time and placed on the Calendar
- Apr 2, 2026SenateCommitteeReported Out of Committee Second House
- Apr 1, 2026SenateCommitteePending Committee Action in Second House
- Apr 1, 2026SenateIntroducedRead for the first time and referred to the Senate Committee on Tourism
- Mar 31, 2026HouseEngrossed
- Mar 31, 2026HouseFloorMotion to Read a Third Time and Pass as Amended - Adopted Roll Call 1073
- Mar 31, 2026HouseMotion to Adopt - Adopted Roll Call 1072
- Mar 31, 2026HouseEconomic Development and Tourism Engrossed Substitute Offered
- Mar 31, 2026HouseThird Reading in House of Origin
- Mar 17, 2026HouseRead for the Second Time and placed on the Calendar
- Mar 17, 2026HouseCommitteeReported Out of Committee House of Origin
- Mar 10, 2026HouseCommitteePending Committee Action in House of Origin
- Mar 10, 2026HouseIntroducedRead for the first time and referred to the House Committee on Economic Development and Tourism
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- Controversy25Intensity of disagreement among stakeholders
- Entertainment5Compellingness for a non-policy-wonk reader
- Buzz35Current news / social attention level
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