A 5141 New Jersey General Assembly · 2024-2025 Regular Session

Establishes historic distillery license; allows consumption of licensee's products on and off licensed premises under certain circumstances.

This bill establishes a new "historic distillery license" specifically for distilleries located on properties listed in New Jersey's Register of Historic Places. License holders can manufacture any distilled alcoholic beverages, sell products for on-premises consumption, and sell up to five liters per person for off-premises consumption. They may also offer up to three samples per day (each no more than 0.5 ounces) and use bonded warehouse bottling. Unlike the existing craft distillery license, which limits annual production to 20,000 gallons, this license has no production cap. The license fee is set at $1,000, and the bill explicitly prohibits direct shipment of distilled spirits within or outside New Jersey.
Bill status signed all 5 stages cleared
Introduction
Dec 2024
Committee Review
Mar 2025
General Assembly Passage
Mar 2025
Senate Passage
Jun 2025
Signed into Law
Jul 2025
Introduced Dec 16, 2024 Signed Jul 8, 2025
Floor votes · Senate Jun 2, 2025 · General Assembly Mar 24, 2025

How they voted

380
Passed · 2 other
Total votes 40
Jun 2, 2025
D Democratic25
23 Yea 2
92% Yea
R Republican15
15 Yea
100% Yea
Vote distribution
All Yea All Nay Mixed No data
Full legislative history

Actions timeline

Total actions
7
Key actions
4
Committee
1
Jul 8, 2025
Signed into law
Approved P.L.2025, c.97.
executive
Jun 2, 2025
Upper · Passed
Passed Senate (Passed Both Houses) (38-0)
upper
Mar 24, 2025
Lower · Passed
Passed Assembly (77-1-0)
lower
Mar 20, 2025
Lower · Passed
Reported out of Assembly Committee, 2nd Reading
lower
Dec 16, 2024
Introduced
Introduced in the Assembly, Referred to Assembly Oversight, Reform and Federal Relations Committee
lower
5 primary · 0 co-sponsors

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