September 26-28 abl fall Board Meeting

July 30-31 - Texas Package Stores Association 70th Annual Convention & Trade Show | Fort Worth, TX

September 6-8 - 10th Annual Alcohol Law & Policy Conference | Chicago, IL

September 8 - Indiana Association of Beverage Retailers Annual Golf Outing | Indianapolis, IN

September 11-14 - Montana Tavern Association Convention | Billings, MT

September 14-15 - Wine, Beer & Spirits Law Conference | Portland, OR

September 17-19 - Illinois Licensed Beverage Association 132nd Annual Convention | Alton, IL

September 22-25 - Wine & Spirits Guild of America Meeting | Boston, MA

October 2-5 - Tavern League of Wisconsin Fall Convention & Trade Show | Appleton, WI

October 8-11 - NBWA 80th Annual Convention & Trade Show | Las Vegas, NV

October 16 - Wine & Spirits Wholesalers of America Fall Membership Meeting | Washington, DC

A key part of House Republicans' plan to overhaul the way corporations pay taxes is on life support, leaving lawmakers scrambling to save one of President Donald Trump's biggest priorities and increasing the chances the GOP will simply pass a tax cut instead of overhauling the tax code.

 

Hensarling: Choice Act Doesn't Give Big Banks a Pass

When Democrats passed the Dodd-Frank Act in the wake of the financial crisis, they promised it would lift the economy, make our financial system more secure and end bailouts. None of this has come to pass. Americans have suffered through the weakest recovery since World War II. The big banks have gotten even bigger, the small banks have become fewer, and our markets have become more fragile - all increasing risk to our financial system.

 

Beer Industry's Bill on Hold Until Bigger Pieces Are Moved

The beer industry, from the smallest craft brewers to the giant Anheuser-Bush InBev, is behind a long-awaited rewrite of the federal tax code on beer. More than half the members of the U.S. House have signed on as co-sponsors of a bipartisan bill to do that, and nearly half the U.S. Senate has put its name on that body's version. So why hasn't it happened? Like many other pieces of legislation in Washington during the first five months of Donald Trump's presidency, a few big pieces have to move first before anything like the beer bill can follow.

 

As Legal Pot Aims for Retail Stores, Stoned Driving Presents a Challenge

One lesson is that a blood alcohol-style limit for drivers probably doesn't work. Other states, including Washington, established a DUI limit of "5 ng/ml or more of delta 9-tetrahydrocannabinol" in a suspect's bloodstream. The problem is that this limit does not necessarily correlate to being high. Marijuana users could, for example, have smoked two days ago and still show a 5 ng/ml reading, experts say.

 

Legal Pot and Car Crashes - Yes, There's a Link

Does driving while high have any impact on auto accident rates? Legalized recreational marijuana use in Colorado, Oregon and Washington correlates to about a 3 percent increase in auto collision claim frequencies compared to states without such legislation, according to a new Highway Loss Data Institute (HLDI) study. It's the first one the group has conducted since the drug went on sale legally.

 

Durbin Repeal Effort Could Be Complicated by Nuanced Position of Some Small Banks

In the wake of a failed effort to repeal the Durbin Amendment this spring, many banks, networks, lobbying groups, and other repeal advocates are vowing to try again, as are the Congressmen who pushed the original repeal effort. But that doesn't mean smaller banks, at least, are totally united behind that cause. 

TTB Newsletter | Weekly News (June 23)

 

Alcoholic Beverage Law Blog

ABC Declaratory Rulings - A Modest Proposal Whose Time Has Come

 

BevLaw Blog

Vive la Révolution

 

Diageo

Diageo to Buy George Clooney's Tequila Brand for Up to $1B

 

National Beer Wholesalers Association

Register Now for NBWA's 80th Annual Convention and Trade Show

 

Southern Glazer's Wine & Spirits

Southern Glazer's Wine & Spirits Executive Joins Advisory Board of Women of the Vine & Spirits

 

Wines & Vines

DtC Sales Extend National Reach

Speaker to Powwow with Stakeholders on Controversial Alcohol Law Changes