Committee advances bill to create craft beverage promotion and grant program The committee released S1082 to establish a Jersey craft beverage retailer promotion and grant program in the New Jersey Economic Development Authority; industry backers said program funding would be sourced from industry-generated tax dollars and the bill is bipartisan.

New Jersey's Senate Economic Growth Committee just took a major step to boost local breweries with a new bill designed to promote craft beverages and support small producers!

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Rental industry urges changes to fuel-metering rules for equipment rentals Witnesses from the American Rental Association and several Michigan equipment rental companies told the committee that recent enforcement by weights-and-measures officials requires metered pumps or charging a full tank at return, imposing heavy costs on local rental businesses. Sponsors said bills (HB 4678, HB 4679) would permit flow-metered fuel 

Michigan's rental companies are pushing back against costly fuel-metering rules that threaten their survival—will new bills provide the relief they desperately need?

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