Wednesday, March 20, 2013

“A Toast… to Texas Business!”

Recently Senator Leticia Van de Putte published an entry on the Burnt orange report, “A Toast… to Texas Business!” Informing anyone who drinks alcohol (more specifically local alcohol), or supports the increase of local businesses and employment, that she has been hard at work to update the regulations put on state business. The Senator states she has seen many complaints based around the Prohibition era laws, many claim they are “inhibiting business expansion and putting Texas companies at a competitive disadvantage with out-of-state brewers and distillers.” She has done her research and has co-authored a set of bills created to appeal to all segments of the industry.
 It seems as though all the bills listed in her blog make a great deal of sense; she gathered the opinions of producers, distillers and retailers allowing them to identify their differences, figure out what they could agree on, and look for solutions. She continually advocates for San Antonio companies in her blog, using them as primary examples seeing as she is from there; allowing me to feel that she has even more credibility other than being an elected official.
 These bills introduce the abilities for breweries and distilleries to sell a small amount on their premises, brewpubs (such as Flix and other restaurants) to sell their products off- premises, and allows brewer under a certain size to distribute their products. This group of bills has already passed the Senate Business and Commerce Committee in hopes that it will continue through the legislature to eventually meet its full maturity at the Governor’s desk. Other bills the Senator has had a hand in, is the bulk distributions of spirits intended to use as ingredients of other products; with intentions of cutting out the middle man, making them more cost effective for food producers to use.
 In my opinion, these bills will definitely aid in the increase our state and local economy, by adding jobs and possibly growth in local businesses.

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