New Jersey alcohol laws

What it would do: Requires the Department of Agriculture to advertise and promote New Jersey liquor, beer, and wine products as part of the Jersey Fresh Program using a quality grading system, and appropriates $100,000 annually for this purpose.

What it would do: Permits plenary and farm winery license holders to sell wine produced by other winery licensees and establishes a supplemental wine production facility sublicense allowing winery licensees to produce wine at additional owned or leased facilities for $750.

What it would do: Requires the Department of Transportation to amend rules for highway directional sign programs to include cideries, distilleries, and meaderies as eligible alcohol manufacturers. Requires the Division of Travel and Tourism to develop and maintain an internet website with searchable information and interactive maps for alcohol manufacturer locations in New Jersey.

What it would do: Permits municipalities to issue plenary retail consumption licenses to for-profit movie theaters to sell alcoholic beverages during the two hours before and during scheduled motion picture exhibitions, with an initial fee of $210,000 or negotiated lower fee if 10 percent of beverages are from craft producers.

What it would do: Makes permanent temporary provisions allowing plenary retail consumption, hotel/motel, seasonal retail consumption, and concessionaire licensees to sell and deliver alcoholic beverages and mixed drinks off-premises. Extends direct-to-consumer delivery privileges to certain craft beverage manufacturers.

What it would do: Revises alcoholic beverage licensing laws by expanding craft manufacturer and farm brewery privileges, allowing coordination with food vendors and on-premises sales; modifies procedures for inactive retail license renewal and transfer; and expands shopping mall license definitions.

What it would do: Allows manufacture, sale, and distribution of frozen desserts containing not more than five percent alcohol by volume without a liquor license, subject to packaging warnings, sales restrictions to persons 21 and older, segregated storage, and prohibitions on deceptive marketing or youth-appealing branding.

What it would do: Amends the farm brewery license to permit holders to sell products to consumers for consumption on the licensed premises, in addition to the existing allowance for off-premises consumption and sampling.

What it would do: Extends hemp producer deadlines to November 13, 2026, revises intoxicating hemp beverage limits to 5-10 mg THC per serving and specifies container sizes, allows ABC bars to sell such beverages, and permits medical cannabis dispensaries to co-locate Class 5 adult use retailers without additional municipal review.

What it would do: Permits plenary and farm winery license holders producing not more than 250,000 gallons annually to sell wine to other winery license holders in-state, and establishes a supplemental wine production facility sublicense for $750 allowing additional production at owned or leased facilities.

What it would do: Extends compliance deadlines for intoxicating hemp beverage sales from April 13, 2026 to May 31, 2026, and allows hemp producers to exceed 0.3 percent THC limits until May 31, 2026 for intermediate extracts being manufactured into compliant final products.

What it would do: Establishes a Jersey Craft Beverage Retailer Promotion and Grant Program in the New Jersey Economic Development Authority to promote craft beverages and retailers, providing grants up to $2,500 annually to qualified retailers, funded by 50 percent of craft beverage tax revenues.

What it would do: Allows holders of seasonal retail consumption alcoholic beverage licenses issued before the bill's effective date to exchange their license for a plenary retail consumption license, permitting year-round sales. The conversion fee is based on average plenary license sales prices in the municipality, not to exceed $250,000.

What it would do: Amends winery licensing laws to permit plenary winery and farm winery license holders producing not more than 250,000 gallons annually to sell wine by the glass for consumption on licensed salesroom premises, provided the salesroom is not located on a restaurant's premises, at a fee of $250 per salesroom.

What it would do: Allows holders of seasonal retail consumption alcoholic beverage licenses to exchange their license for a plenary retail consumption license by surrendering it to the issuing authority within 12 months of the bill's effective date, with a conversion fee equal to 43 percent of average plenary license sales prices in the municipality, capped at $250,000.

What it would do: Establishes a supplemental wine production facility sublicense allowing plenary and farm winery license holders to produce wine at additional facilities in New Jersey, with wine produced for other wineries not counting toward the producer's gallon limits but counting toward the purchasing winery's limits.

What it would do: Creates regulatory scheme for hemp-derived cannabinoid products aligned with federal law, prohibiting products with synthesized cannabinoids or excessive THC while allowing intoxicating hemp beverages under specific conditions; repeals prior intoxicating hemp law.

What it would do: Permits plenary and farm winery license holders producing not more than 250,000 gallons per year to sell wine to other winery license holders without counting toward their production limits. Establishes a supplemental wine production facility sublicense for $750 allowing additional production at owned or leased facilities.

What it would do: Establishes a Jersey Craft Beverage Retailer Promotion and Grant Program in the New Jersey Economic Development Authority to promote craft alcohol beverages and retailers, providing grants up to $2,500 annually to qualified retailers, funded by 50 percent of craft beverage tax revenues.

What it would do: Amends alcoholic beverage licensing laws to allow nonprofit corporations and their single-member limited liability company disregarded entities to obtain plenary retail consumption licenses for theaters with at least 1,000 seats, and creates a new license category for community theaters operated by eligible business entities with 50 to 1,500 seats.

What it would do: Establishes a historic distillery license for premises on the New Jersey Register of Historic Places, allowing holders to manufacture distilled alcoholic beverages and sell them on-premises for consumption or off-premises up to five liters per person, with a $1,000 license fee.

What it would do: Amends the sporting facility alcoholic beverage license to clarify that licensed premises include all areas up to the security perimeter and removes restrictions on all-inclusive areas, allowing unlimited number, size, and capacity of such areas within the facility.

What it would do: Requires the Secretary of Agriculture and State Board of Agriculture to develop and implement a Jersey Spirits Program to promote spirits produced in New Jersey using state-grown ingredients through advertising, marketing, information dissemination, and a labeling program similar to Jersey Fresh.

What it would do: Removes the two-license limit for plenary retail distribution licenses held by a single person when used in qualifying retail food stores or liquor stores, allowing up to four licenses starting 25 months after enactment and six licenses starting 73 months after enactment, with exemptions for urban food desert locations.