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SB23 • 2026

Revise the Alcohol Franchise Law

Revise the Alcohol Franchise Law

Passed Legislature

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Sponsor
Andrew O. Brenner
Last action
Official status
As Introduced
Effective date
Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

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Revise the Alcohol Franchise Law

To amend section 1333.82 of the Revised Code to revise the Alcohol Franchise Law.

What This Bill Does

  • To amend section 1333.82 of the Revised Code to revise the Alcohol Franchise Law.

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Bill History

  1. Ohio Legislature

    As Introduced

Official Summary Text

To amend section 1333.82 of the Revised Code to revise the Alcohol Franchise Law.

Current Bill Text

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As Introduced

136th
General Assembly

Regular
Session
S. B. No. 23

2025-2026

Senator Brenner

A
BILL

To
amend section 1333.82 of the Revised Code
to
revise the Alcohol Franchise Law.

BE
IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF OHIO:

Section
1.
That
section 1333.82 of the Revised Code be amended to read as follows:

Sec.
1333.82.
As
used in sections 1333.82 to 1333.87 of the Revised Code:

(A)
"Alcoholic beverages" means beer and wine as defined in
section 4301.01 of the Revised Code.

(B)
"Manufacturer" means a person, whether located in this
state or elsewhere, that manufactures or supplies alcoholic beverages
to distributors in this state.

"Manufacturer" does not include any person producing less
than two hundred fifty thousand barrels of beer a year.

(C)
"Distributor" means a person that sells or distributes
alcoholic beverages to retail permit holders in this state, but does
not include the state or any of its political subdivisions.

(D)
"Franchise" means a contract or any other legal device used
to establish a contractual relationship between a manufacturer and a
distributor.

(E)
"Good faith" means the duty of any party to any franchise,
and all officers, employees, or agents of any party to any franchise,
to act in a fair and equitable manner toward each other so as to
guarantee each party freedom from coercion or intimidation; except
that recommendation, endorsement, exposition, persuasion, urging, or
argument shall not be considered to constitute a lack of good faith
or coercion.

(F)
"Brand," as applied to wine, means a wine different from
any other wine in respect to type, brand, trade name, or container
size.

(G)
"Sales area or territory" means an exclusive geographic
area or territory that is assigned to a particular A or B permit
holder and that either has one or more political subdivisions as its
boundaries or consists of an area of land with readily identifiable
geographic boundaries. "Sales area or territory" does not
include, however, any particular retail location in an exclusive
geographic area or territory that had been assigned to another A or B
permit holder before April 9, 2001.

Section
2.
That
existing section 1333.82 of the Revised Code is hereby repealed.