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type: "Bill"
title: "Craft Distilleries"
description: "Craft Distilleries; Authorizing craft distilleries to be licensed as specified vendors under certain circumstances; requiring certain alcoholic beverages to be obtained through a licensed distributor; prohibiting a distillery from operating as a craft distillery until certain requirements are met; authorizing persons to have common ownership in craft distilleries under certain circumstances; requiring a minimum percentage of a craft distillerys total finished branded products to be distilled in this state and contain one or more Florida agricultural products after a specified date, etc."
jurisdiction: "us/states/fl"
legislature: "Florida Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "SB 46"
citation: "Florida SB 46 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["alcoholic beverages and tobacco"]
status: "enacted"
chapter_law: "2021-166"
primary_sponsors: ["Hutson"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 36
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2020-12-18"
last_action: "2021-07-06"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/80200d18-70d4-409b-827c-a2f1aa0c5fdf"
source_url: "https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2021/46/ByCategory"
source_hash: "12314cafed101adcaf04ff3f87229ca441753693f0e94568f3e03132c5f204c3"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-fl"]
---
# Florida SB 46 (2021) — Craft Distilleries
Craft Distilleries; Authorizing craft distilleries to be licensed as specified vendors under certain circumstances; requiring certain alcoholic beverages to be obtained through a licensed distributor; prohibiting a distillery from operating as a craft distillery until certain requirements are met; authorizing persons to have common ownership in craft distilleries under certain circumstances; requiring a minimum percentage of a craft distillerys total finished branded products to be distilled in this state and contain one or more Florida agricultural products after a specified date, etc.
**Enacted** — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2021-166.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **S 46 Filed** (filed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2021/46/BillText/Filed/HTML)
2. **S 46 c1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2021/46/BillText/c1/HTML)
3. **S 46 c2** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2021/46/BillText/c2/HTML)
4. **S 46 er** (enrolled) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2021/46/BillText/er/HTML)
## Votes
- Third Reading — **390** (pass) · upper
- Favorable with Committee Substitute — **90** (pass) · upper
- Passage, Third Reading — **1161** (pass) · lower
- Favorable with Committee Substitute — **110** (pass) · upper
- Favorable — **160** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- Hutson — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2020-12-18** Filed `filing`
- **2020-12-21** Referred to Regulated Industries; Commerce and Tourism; Rules `referral-committee`
- **2021-01-15** On Committee agenda-- Regulated Industries, 01/26/21, 12:30 pm, 412 Knott Building
- **2021-01-26** CS by Regulated Industries; YEAS 9 NAYS 0
- **2021-01-27** Pending reference review under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
- **2021-01-28** Now in Commerce and Tourism
- **2021-02-08** On Committee agenda-- Commerce and Tourism, 02/15/21, 3:30 pm, 110 Senate Building
- **2021-02-15** CS/CS by Commerce and Tourism; YEAS 11 NAYS 0
- **2021-02-16** Pending reference review under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
- **2021-02-18** Now in Rules
- **2021-03-01** On Committee agenda-- Rules, 03/04/21, 9:00 am, 412 Knott Building
- **2021-03-02** Introduced `introduction`
- **2021-03-02** CS by Regulated Industries read 1st time
- **2021-03-02** CS/CS by Commerce and Tourism read 1st time
- **2021-03-04** Favorable by- Rules; YEAS 16 NAYS 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-03-04** Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
- **2021-03-08** Placed on Special Order Calendar, 03/11/21
- **2021-03-11** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2021-03-11** Placed on 3rd reading
- **2021-03-18** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2021-03-18** CS passed; YEAS 39 NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2021-03-25** In Messages
- **2021-04-08** Bill referred to House Calendar
- **2021-04-08** Bill added to Special Order Calendar (4/13/2021)
- **2021-04-08** 1st Reading (Committee Substitute 2)
- **2021-04-13** Substituted for CS/HB 737
- **2021-04-13** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2021-04-13** Placed on 3rd reading
- **2021-04-13** Added to Third Reading Calendar
- **2021-04-14** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2021-04-14** CS passed; YEAS 116, NAYS 1 `passage`
- **2021-04-15** Message sent to senate
- **2021-04-15** Ordered enrolled
- **2021-06-28** Signed by Officers and presented to Governor
- **2021-06-29** Approved by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2021-07-06** Chapter No. 2021-166
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/80200d18-70d4-409b-827c-a2f1aa0c5fdf`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).