NevadaLocal officials may allow food businesses to sell sealed drinks to take home
Since October 2025, local officials may let eligible food businesses sell sealed drinks to take home or deliver them, with a surcharge on each sale.
What it does
A county or city may let eligible food businesses sell sealed alcoholic drinks to take home or deliver them, under local rules.
A craft distiller with a qualifying contract made before 2025 may import spirits from another maker to produce its formula and export up to 40,000 extra cases.
The program account may pay for DUI enforcement and testing, data systems, ignition device audits, treatment help, training, and outreach.
Nevada names the traditional Basque Picon Punch as its official state drink.
Argument forWhere local officials allow it, diners may be able to take sealed drinks home or have them delivered.
Argument againstCustomers may pay more for a drink if a business passes the surcharge on to them.
More detail
A county or city may pass an ordinance allowing eligible food businesses to sell sealed drinks for takeout and arrange delivery. A covered food business must prepare and serve food on site and have a license to sell drinks for customers to consume there. The ordinance may set conditions for sales and delivery. The Department of Taxation must set rules for a surcharge of no more than 50 cents per sale. The Department may use up to $250,000 each year for its costs; any remaining money goes to the DUI program account. This provision does not change the separate rules for liquor store deliveries. This provision took effect for all purposes on October 1, 2025.
A qualifying craft distiller may import spirits from another maker to produce a particular formula and may make extra cases of it for export. This applies to a person who runs a craft distillery and holds the required certificate for a formula covered by an earlier contract. The distiller must hold a certificate and have a contract made before January 1, 2025, giving it the exclusive right to make that formula. The distiller may make up to 40,000 extra cases of that spirit for export to another state, across all its craft distilleries. These provisions took effect for all purposes on October 1, 2025.
The Director of Public Safety runs the Ignition Interlock and DUI Reduction Program and administers its account. The Director of the Nevada Department of Public Safety runs the program, and its account is held in the State Highway Fund. The account may pay program costs, including DUI enforcement and testing, data systems, audits of ignition interlock devices, treatment help, training, and outreach. Surcharge money goes to the account only after the Department of Taxation receives the amount needed for its costs, up to $250,000 each year. These provisions took effect for all purposes on October 1, 2025.
Nevada names the traditional Basque Picon Punch as its official state drink. The designation applies to the Picon Punch. The designation took effect when the Governor approved the act on June 9, 2025.
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Where it stands
- Introduced
- Passed Assembly
- Passed Senate
- To Governor
- Became Law
Looking ahead
No hearings or votes scheduled.
History
- 2025
- Jun 9Approved by the Governor Joe Lombardo. Chapter 422.Became Law
- Jun 5Enrolled and delivered to Governor.To Governor
- Jun 2Read third time. Passed. Title approved. (Yeas: 20, Nays: 1.) To Assembly. In Assembly. To enrollment.Passed Senate
- Vote recorded Senate (2nd Reprint). Result: pass.Upper
- Jun 1From committee: Do pass. Placed on Second Reading File. Read second time.Minor
- May 29From printer. To reengrossment. Reengrossed. Second reprint. Read third time. Passed, as amended. Title approved, as amended. (Yeas: 41, Nays: 1.) To Senate. In Senate. Read first time. Referred to Committee on Finance. To committee.Passed Assembly
- Vote recorded Assembly (2nd Reprint). Result: pass.Lower
- May 28From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. Placed on General File. Read third time. Amended. (Amend. No. 827.) To printer.Minor
- Apr 24From printer. To engrossment. Engrossed. First reprint. To committee.
- Apr 21From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. Placed on Second Reading File. Read second time. Amended. (Amend. No. 441.) Taken from General File. Rereferred to Committee on Ways and Means. Exemption effective. To printer.Minor
- Mar 24Notice of eligibility for exemption.
- Mar 7From printer. To committee.
- Mar 6Read first time. Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor. To printer.Introduced
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