Bill Text: NY S04887 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Allows brewery supply stores to sell New York state labelled beer for off-premises consumption.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2022-04-27 - referred to economic development [S04887 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-S04887-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         4887--A
            Cal. No. 676

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                    February 17, 2021
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        Introduced  by  Sen. SKOUFIS -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Investigations and Govern-
          ment Operations -- reported favorably from said committee, ordered  to
          first  and  second  report,  ordered  to  a third reading, amended and
          ordered reprinted, retaining its place in the order of third reading

        AN ACT to amend the alcoholic  beverage  control  law,  in  relation  to
          allowing  brewery  supply  stores to sell New York state labelled beer
          for off premises consumption

          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section  1. Section 3 of the alcoholic beverage control law is amended
     2  by adding two new subdivisions 4-a and 4-b to read as follows:
     3    4-a. "Brewery supply store" means and includes any place  or  premises
     4  where ingredients and equipment to make beer, wine and cider in the home
     5  are  sold. A brewery supply store may be on the same premises as a brew-
     6  ery.
     7    4-b. A brewery supply store licensed to  sell  beer  for  off-premises
     8  consumption under subdivision four of section fifty-four of this chapter
     9  shall  sell  only New York state labelled beer as defined in subdivision
    10  twenty-d of this section.
    11    § 2. Subdivision 4 of section 54 of  the  alcoholic  beverage  control
    12  law,  as  amended by chapter 503 of the laws of 1954, is amended to read
    13  as follows:
    14    4. No such license shall be issued, however, to  any  person  for  any
    15  premises  other  than a grocery store, drug store, brewery supply store,
    16  or duly licensed supply ship operating in harbors in Lake Erie.
    17    § 3. This act shall take effect on the thirtieth day  after  it  shall
    18  have become a law.


         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD07866-02-1