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Act No. 66
Public Acts of 2025
Approved by the Governor
December 23, 2025
Filed with the Secretary of State
December 23, 2025
EFFECTIVE DATE: December 23, 2025
STATE OF MICHIGAN
103RD LEGISLATURE
REGULAR SESSION OF 2025
Introduced by Senators Hauck, Bellino, McMorrow, Wojno, Singh, Hertel, Santana, Bumstead,
Lauwers, Polehanki, Webber and Damoose
ENROLLED SENATE BILL No. 513
AN ACT to amend 1998 PA 58, entitled “An act to create a commission for the control of the alcoholic beverage
traffic within this state, and to prescribe its powers, duties, and limitations; to provide for powers and duties for
certain state departments and agencies; to impose certain taxes for certain purposes; to provide for the control of
the alcoholic liquor traffic within this state and to provide for the power to establish state liquor stores; to prohibit
the use of certain devices for the dispensing of alcoholic vapor; to provide for the care and treatment of alcoholics;
to provide for the incorporation of farmer cooperative wineries and the granting of certain rights and privileges
to those cooperatives; to provide for the licensing and taxation of a ctivities regulated under this act and the
disposition of the money received under this act; to prescribe liability for retail licensees under certain
circumstances and to require security for that liability; to provide procedures, defenses, and remedies r egarding
violations of this act; to provide for the enforcement and to prescribe penalties for violations of this act; to provide
for allocation of certain funds for certain purposes; to provide for the confiscation and disposition of property
seized under this act; to provide referenda under certain circumstances; and to repeal acts and parts of acts, ” by
amending section 105 (MCL 436.1105), as amended by 2025 PA 9, and by adding section 604.
The People of the State of Michigan enact:
Sec. 105. (1) “Alcohol” means the product of distillation of fermented liquid, whether or not rectified or diluted
with water, but does not mean ethyl or industrial alcohol, diluted or not, that has been denatured or otherwise
rendered unfit for beverage purposes.
(2) “Alcohol vapor device” means any device that provides for the use of air or oxygen bubbled through alcoholic
liquor to produce a vapor or mist that allows the user to inhale this alcoholic vapor through the mouth or nose.
(3) “Alcoholic liquor” means any spirituous, vinous, malt, or fermented liquor, powder, liquids, and compounds,
whether or not medicated, proprietary, or patented, and by whatever name called, containing 1/2 of 1% or more
of alcohol by volume that are fit for use for food purpo ses or beverage purposes as defined and classified by the
commission according to alcoholic content as belonging to 1 of the varieties defined in this chapter.
(4) “Alternating proprietorship” means 1 of the following:
(a) An arrangement in which 2 or more wine makers or small wine makers take turns using the same space
and equipment to manufacture wine under section 603(9)(a) and in accordance with 27 CFR 24.136.
(b) An arrangement in which 2 or more brewers or micro brewers take turns using the same space and
equipment to manufacture beer under section 603(9)(b) and in accordance with 27 CFR 25.52.
(c) An arrangement in which 2 or more distillers or small distillers take turns using the same space and
equipment to manufacture spirits under section 603(9)(c) and in accordance with 27 CFR 19.141.
(d) An arrangement in which 2 or more mixed spirit drink manufacturers take turns using the same space and
equipment to manufacture mixed spirit drink under section 603(9)(d) and in accordance with 27 CFR 19.141.
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(5) “Approved tasting room ” means a tasting room that is approved by the commission. A licensee with an
approved tasting room is not a retail licensee as that term is used in this act and the rules promulgated under
this act except for sections 701, 801, 803, 815, 905, and 906.
(6) “Authorized distribution agent ” means a person approved by the commission to do 1 or more of the
following:
(a) To store spirits owned by a supplier of spirits or the commission.
(b) To deliver spirits sold by the commission to retail licensees.
(c) To perform any function needed to store spirits owned by a supplier of spirits or by the commission or to
deliver spirits sold by the commission to retail licensees.
(7) “Bar” means a barrier or counter at which alcoholic liquor is sold to, served to, or consumed by customers.
(8) “Beer” means either of the following:
(a) A beverage obtained by alcoholic fermentation of an infusion or decoction of barley, malt, hops, sugar, or
other cereal in potable water that contains at least 0.5% of alcohol by volume.
(b) A beverage obtained by alcoholic fermentation of an infusion or decoction of barley, malt, hops, or other
cereal in potable water that contains less than 0.5% of alcohol by volume, including a beverage that contains
0.0% of alcohol by volume.
(9) “Bottle” or “bottling” means a process, separate from manufacturing, using owned or leased equipment to
fill and seal a container, including a keg, with alcoholic liquor for sale at wholesale or retail in accordance with
this act. Bottle or bottling does not include filling a growler for sale at retail.
(10) “Brand” means any word, group of words, letter, group of letters, symbol, group of symbols, or combination
of any word, name, group of letters, symbol, or trademark adopted and used by a supplier, to name, identify, or
trademark a specific beer, malt beverage, wine, mixed wine drink, or mixed spirit drink product. A supplier’s legal
name, assumed name, or trade name, or any doing -business-as name used by the supplier is considered a brand
name, identifier, or trademark if it is used in a manner that is prominently featured on the container or packaging
of the beer, wine, mixed wine drink, or mixed spirit drink to market the product and to identify the product, except
under either of the following circumstances:
(a) The use of the legal name, assumed name, trade name, or doing-business-as name is not considered a brand
name, identifier, or trademark if it is not prominently featured on the container or packaging of the beer, wine,
mixed wine drink, or mixed spirit drink.
(b) The use of the legal name, assumed name, trade name, or doing-business-as name is not considered a brand
name, identifier, or trademark if it is used solely for any of the following purposes:
(i) Identifying the supplier that manufactured the beer, wine, mixed wine drink, or mixed spirit drink.
(ii) Identifying the supplier that has bottled the beer, wine, mixed wine drink, or mixed spirit drink.
(iii) Identifying the supplier that has imported the beer, wine, mixed wine drink, or mixed spirit drink.
(11) “Brand extension” means any beer, wine, mixed wine drink, or mixed spirit drink brand that is marketed,
in any manner, using the same name, identifier, or trademark associated with a brand that has preceded it in
being sold or offered for sale in this state, or a derivative or portion of the name, identifier, or trademark, and that
would lead a reasonable person to recognize its relationship to an existing brand, regardless of any of the following:
(a) The addition of words or letters in a word.
(b) The addition of a name, identifier, or trademark.
(c) The addition of a symbol.
(d) Any differences in the packaging, formulation, or production of the beer, wine, mixed wine drink, or mixed
spirit drink or the shape, size, or type of container in which the beer, wine, mixed wine drink, or mixed spirit
drink is sold.
(e) Changes in the alcohol category used in the brand extension. As used in this subdivision only, “alcohol
category” means a beer category, a wine category, a mixed wine drink category, or a mixed spirit drink category.
(f) The manufacturer, importer, or licensed outstate seller of the brand extension being different from the
manufacturer, importer, or licensed outstate seller of the underlying brand the extension is based on.
(12) “Brandy” means an alcoholic liquor as defined in former 27 CFR 5.145.
(13) “Brandy manufacturer” means a wine maker or a small wine maker licensed under this act to manufacture
brandy. A wine maker or small wine maker authorized to manufacture brandy shall not manufacture any other
spirits. The commission may approve a brandy manufacturer to sell bra ndy that it manufactures at retail in
accordance with section 537.
(14) “Brewer” means a person located in this state that is licensed to manufacture beer and sell at retail in
accordance with section 537 and to licensed wholesalers beer manufactured by the person.
(15) “Brewpub” means a license issued in conjunction with a class C, tavern, class A hotel, or class B hotel
license that authorizes the person licensed with the class C, tavern, class A hotel, or class B hotel license to
manufacture and brew not more than 18,000 barrels of beer per calendar year in this state and sell at its licensed
premises the beer produced for consumption on or off the licensed brewery premises in the manner provided for
in sections 405, 407, and 537.
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(16) As used in subsection (10), “supplier” means a brewer, a micro brewer, an outstate seller of beer, a wine
maker, a small wine maker, an outstate seller of wine, a manufacturer of a mixed wine drink, an outstate seller
of a mixed wine drink, a mixed spirit drink manufacturer, and an outstate seller of a mixed spirit drink.
(17) With regard to subsections (10) and (11), distribution rights in effect on the effective date of the
amendatory act that added this subsection are preserved. However, this subsection does not limit application of
subsection (11) to a beer, wine, mixed wine drink, or mixed spirit drink that would be considered a brand extension
after the effective date of the amendatory act that added this subsection that is based on a brand that was in
existence before the effective date of the amendatory act that added this subsection.
Sec. 604. A supplier that registers a multibranded product with the commission shall appoint the wholesaler
or wholesalers that have rights to the supplier’s underlying brand. As used in this section, “multibranded product”
means any beer, wine, mixed wine drink, or mixed spirit drink that includes 2 or more brands of different
suppliers.
Enacting section 1. This amendatory act does not take effect unless Senate Bill No. 512 of the 103rd Legislature
is enacted into law.
This act is ordered to take immediate effect.
Secretary of the Senate
Clerk of the House of Representatives
Approved___________________________________________
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Governor