Bill Text: NY S00348 | 2025-2026 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Ends the local option of towns and cities to prohibit the sale of alcohol.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced) 2025-01-08 - REFERRED TO INVESTIGATIONS AND GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS [S00348 Detail]
Download: New_York-2025-S00348-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 348 2025-2026 Regular Sessions IN SENATE (Prefiled) January 8, 2025 ___________ Introduced by Sen. SKOUFIS -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Investigations and Govern- ment Operations AN ACT to amend the alcoholic beverage control law, in relation to ending the local option of towns and cities to prohibit the sale of alcohol; and to repeal certain provisions of such law relating thereto The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. The alcoholic beverage control law is amended by adding a 2 new section 132 to read as follows: 3 § 132. Local options on the sale of alcohol prohibited. Within every 4 municipality which had a referendum to prohibit the sale of alcohol 5 under the former article nine of this chapter the sale of alcohol shall 6 be lawful. No municipality shall enact any local law, ordinance, or 7 resolution which prohibits the sale of alcohol within the entirety of 8 such municipality. 9 § 2. Article 9 of the alcoholic beverage control law is REPEALED. 10 § 3. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall 11 have become a law. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD01436-01-5
