Liquor laws due for review

Massachusetts

State Treasurer Deb Goldberg recently established a seven-member advisory task force to review laws governing the Massachusetts alcohol industry. The issues that officials and industry executives suggested could be reviewed include: extending the hours for package stores, lifting caps on liquor licenses in each municipality, allowing beer-makers to switch distributors more easily, loosening restrictions on consumers bringing alcohol to restaurants or reusing growlers, boosting funding to the chronically understaffed Alcoholic Beverages Control Commission, and clarifying rules about so-called pay-to-play incentives.