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It was week one at the 2025 Virginia General Assembly...until it wasn't. Here's the recap and what comes next.
It was week one at the 2025 Virginia General Assembly...until it wasn't. Here's the recap and what comes next.
Phil eyeballs some of the issues on the horizon and shares insight from VBWA's Emerging Leaders program.
Scott Heinz, VBWA Chair Katherine Hines, VBWA Vice-Chair At our June convention, the VBWA Board of Directors unanimously elected Virginia Eagle Distributing's Scott Heinz as Chair and Hoffman Beverage Company's Katherine Hines as Vice-Chair for the 2024-2025 term. Katherine was also elected to the Tier 1 Board of Directors position, [...]
As we reflect on the recent VBWA/VWWA Annual Convention held this month in Ponte Vedra, Florida, I am filled with gratitude and pride...Let’s continue to build on this momentum and look ahead to a promising summer and future.
Rolling off a successful 2024 General Assembly session, we look ahead to our plans for the remaining eight months: Emerging leaders, evolving an old tax, and standing up for the wholesale tier.
We sit down with the NBWA’s David Christman, a more than 20-year veteran of the National Beer Wholesalers Association who today manages state-level affairs for the association and is a main point of contact for state wholesaler associations. They discuss a number of issues impacting every tier of the Three Tier system, from “crossover” brands (a la hard sodas and teas) to post-COVID direct-to-consumer regulations, craft beer challenges, the rise of canned cocktails and Virginia’s new self-distribution system for brewers.
By Phil Boykin, VBWA President & CEO There are nearly 800 bills still awaiting final action with just a few days before the General Assembly is scheduled to adjourn, or "Sine Die." The single biggest issue hanging over the General Assembly: Virginia's budget. The House of Delegates and Senate budget negotiators were expected to meet [...]
By Phil Boykin, VBWA President & CEO Last week was the critical "crossover" deadline, when all bills must move out of the chamber of origination, and the House and Senate can only act on the other side's bills. Of the 2,815 bills introduced this session, 1,340 remain. It was a busy week, with long days [...]
By Phil Boykin, VBWA President & CEO The General Assembly this week hits its procedural halfway point known as "crossover," the deadline when all bills have to be out of the chamber of origination and move to the other chamber for debate. As a result, the last week forced committees to act on bills where [...]
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It was week one at the 2025 Virginia General Assembly...until it wasn't. Here's the recap and what comes next.
It was week one at the 2025 Virginia General Assembly...until it wasn't. Here's the recap and what comes next.
Phil eyeballs some of the issues on the horizon and shares insight from VBWA's Emerging Leaders program.
Scott Heinz, VBWA Chair Katherine Hines, VBWA Vice-Chair At our June convention, the VBWA Board of Directors unanimously elected Virginia Eagle Distributing's Scott Heinz as Chair and Hoffman Beverage Company's Katherine Hines as Vice-Chair for the 2024-2025 term. Katherine was also elected to the Tier 1 Board of Directors position, [...]
As we reflect on the recent VBWA/VWWA Annual Convention held this month in Ponte Vedra, Florida, I am filled with gratitude and pride...Let’s continue to build on this momentum and look ahead to a promising summer and future.
Rolling off a successful 2024 General Assembly session, we look ahead to our plans for the remaining eight months: Emerging leaders, evolving an old tax, and standing up for the wholesale tier.
We sit down with the NBWA’s David Christman, a more than 20-year veteran of the National Beer Wholesalers Association who today manages state-level affairs for the association and is a main point of contact for state wholesaler associations. They discuss a number of issues impacting every tier of the Three Tier system, from “crossover” brands (a la hard sodas and teas) to post-COVID direct-to-consumer regulations, craft beer challenges, the rise of canned cocktails and Virginia’s new self-distribution system for brewers.
By Phil Boykin, VBWA President & CEO There are nearly 800 bills still awaiting final action with just a few days before the General Assembly is scheduled to adjourn, or "Sine Die." The single biggest issue hanging over the General Assembly: Virginia's budget. The House of Delegates and Senate budget negotiators were expected to meet [...]
By Phil Boykin, VBWA President & CEO Last week was the critical "crossover" deadline, when all bills must move out of the chamber of origination, and the House and Senate can only act on the other side's bills. Of the 2,815 bills introduced this session, 1,340 remain. It was a busy week, with long days [...]
By Phil Boykin, VBWA President & CEO The General Assembly this week hits its procedural halfway point known as "crossover," the deadline when all bills have to be out of the chamber of origination and move to the other chamber for debate. As a result, the last week forced committees to act on bills where [...]
