HB445 Alabama 2020 Session

Sponsors

Session

Regular Session 2020

Title

Alcoholic beverages, to require licensed importers and manufacturers of wine to enter into exclusive franchise agreements with wholesalers, Secs. 28-8A-1 to 28-8A-11, inclusive, added.

Description

<p class="bill_description"> Under existing law, wine manufacturers and importers are required to sell wine through a licensed wholesaler</p><p class="bill_description"> This bill would require each supplier of wine to designate sales territories for each of its brands and enter into an exclusive franchise agreement with a wholesaler for each sales territory</p><p class="bill_description"> This bill would set conditions and requirements for franchise agreements between suppliers and wholesale distributors of wine, including provisions for the modification, termination, cancellation, nonrenewal, or discontinuance of an agreement</p><p class="bill_description"> This bill would apply to franchise agreements entered into before, on, or after December 31, 2019, with exceptions</p><p class="bill_description"> This bill would provide further duties of the Alcoholic Beverage Control Board</p><p class="bill_entitled_an_act"> Relating to alcoholic beverages; to add Chapter 8A to Title 28 of the Code of Alabama 1975; to require licensed importers and manufacturers of wine to enter into exclusive franchise agreements with wholesalers; to regulate franchise agreements between suppliers and wholesalers of wine; to provide for other business relations between suppliers and wholesalers of wine; to provide that the new Chapter 8A would retroactively apply to agreements entered into before, on, and after December 31, 2019; and to provide for an effective date. </p>

Subjects

Alcoholic Beverage Control Board