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A2762 • 2026

Directs Department of Agriculture to advertise and promote New Jersey liquors, beers, and wines.*

Directs Department of Agriculture to advertise and promote New Jersey liquors, beers, and wines.*

Agriculture
Passed Legislature

This bill passed both chambers and reached final enrollment, even if later executive action is not shown here.

Sponsor
Katz, Andrea
Last action
2026-05-04
Official status
Reported out of Assembly Comm. with Amendments, 2nd Reading
Effective date
Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

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Directs Department of Agriculture to advertise and promote New Jersey liquors, beers, and wines.*

Directs Department of Agriculture to advertise and promote New Jersey liquors, beers, and wines.* Topic: 2nd Reading in the Assembly Fiscal note: This bill has been certified by OLS for a fiscal note.

What This Bill Does

  • Directs Department of Agriculture to advertise and promote New Jersey liquors, beers, and wines.* Topic: 2nd Reading in the Assembly Fiscal note: This bill has been certified by OLS for a fiscal note.

Limits and Unknowns

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Bill History

  1. 2026-05-04 New Jersey Legislature

    Reported out of Assembly Comm. with Amendments, 2nd Reading

  2. 2026-01-13 New Jersey Legislature

    Introduced, Referred to Assembly Agriculture and Natural Resources Committee

Official Summary Text

Directs Department of Agriculture to advertise and promote New Jersey liquors, beers, and wines.*
Topic:
2nd Reading in the Assembly
Fiscal note:
This bill has been certified by OLS for a fiscal note.

Current Bill Text

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A2762 1R

[First Reprint]

ASSEMBLY, No. 2762

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

222nd LEGISLATURE

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PRE-FILED FOR INTRODUCTION IN THE 2026 SESSION

Sponsored by:

Assemblywoman ANDREA KATZ

District 8 (Atlantic and Burlington)

Assemblywoman� HEATHER SIMMONS

District 3 (Cumberland, Gloucester and Salem)

Assemblywoman� MARISA SWEENEY

District 25 (Morris and Passaic)

Co-Sponsored by:

Assemblywoman Morales, Assemblyman Freiman, Assemblywomen
Brennan, Drulis and Assemblyman Sauickie

SYNOPSIS

���� Directs Department of Agriculture to
advertise and promote
New Jersey liquors,
beers, and wines.

CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT

���� As reported by the Assembly Agriculture and Natural
Resources Committee on May 4, 2026, with amendments.

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An Act
concerning
funding for New Jersey liquors, beers, and wines,
1
and
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supplementing Title 4 of the Revised Statutes
1
[
, and making an appropriation
]
1
.

����
Be It
Enacted
by the Senate and General Assembly of
the State of New Jersey:

���� 1.� a.� As used in this
section:

���� �Beer product� means an
alcoholic beverage produced by brewing and fermenting grain starches.

���� �Department� means the
Department of Agriculture.�

���� �Jersey Fresh Program� means
the agricultural commodity marketing and quality grading program established by
the department pursuant to P.L.1971, c.308 (C.4:10-43 et seq.), and the rules
and regulations adopted pursuant thereto.

���� �Liquor product� means any
distilled alcoholic spirit produced by the distillation of grains, fruits,
vegetables, or sugar which have gone through alcoholic fermentation.

���� �Wine product� means an
alcoholic fermented beverage made from fresh grapes.

���� b.� The department, as part of
the Jersey Fresh Program
1
[
,
]
1

shall
1
,
within the limits of monies appropriated or allocated to the Jersey Fresh
Program
,
1

advertise and promote liquor, beer, and wine products, the quality of which
complies with standards adopted by the department and is verified thereby
through the use of an appropriate quality grading and rating system.� The
department shall develop and implement an appropriate quality grading and
rating system specific to the quality of alcohol products, which system shall
be consistent with, and similar to, the quality grading and rating systems that
are used, by the department, to measure the quality of other agricultural
commodities for the purposes of the Jersey Fresh Program.

����
1
[
c.� In
addition to the monies appropriated pursuant to section 2 of this act and
otherwise appropriated or allocated to the Jersey Fresh Program, there shall be
appropriated, from the General Fund to the Department of Agriculture, the
annual sum of $100,000, for the purpose of facilitating the department�s
advertisement and promotion of liquor, beer, and wine products under the Jersey
Fresh Program, as required pursuant to subsection b. of this section.
]
1
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����
1
[
2.� There is
appropriated from the General Fund to the Department of Agriculture the sum of
$100,000 for the purpose of the promotion of liquor, beer, and wine products
produced in the State as part of the Jersey Fresh Program.
]
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3.
]
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2.
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�This
act shall take effect immediately.