Bill Description: Senate Bill 1301 would allow small breweries to have up to two remote retail locations rather than just one. 

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Does it give government any new, additional, or expanded power to prohibit, restrict, or regulate activities in the free market? Conversely, does it eliminate or reduce government intervention in the market?

Idaho law heavily regulates businesses that produce and sell alcohol, imposing a strange and often conflicting patchwork of laws and licenses that unnecessarily limits access to both providers and consumers.

One of these laws restricts a small brewery (one that produces fewer than 30,000 barrels annually) to selling its products directly to consumers at either its brewery location or at one remote retail location. 

Senate Bill 1301 would amend Section 23-1003, Idaho Code, to say that a small brewery could sell its products at its main production brewery and up to two remote retail locations. 

While there should be no restrictions on the number of retail locations (and the law should apply uniformly to all breweries regardless of size), this bill does reduce regulatory barriers without any overt cronyism (as is often present in regulatory carve-outs).

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