Bill Text: NY A09890 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Allows certain reusable beverage containers in sports venues.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-04-26 - referred to consumer affairs and protection [A09890 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A09890-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          9890

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                     April 26, 2024
                                       ___________

        Introduced by M. of A. BURGOS -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Consumer Affairs and Protection

        AN  ACT  to  amend  the  general  business  law, in relation to allowing
          certain reusable beverage containers in sports venues

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

     1    Section 1. The general business law is amended by adding a new section
     2  391-r to read as follows:
     3    §  391-r.  Reusable  beverage  containers  in  sports  venues.  1. For
     4  purposes of this section, the following terms shall have  the  following
     5  meanings:
     6    (a)  "reusable  beverage  container"  means  a drinking vessel that is
     7  composed primarily of aluminum or stainless steel, and is  designed  and
     8  manufactured  to  be  capable  of multiple reuses, including a bottle or
     9  cup.
    10    (b) "sports venue" means a building,  structure,  or  place  in  which
    11  professional or collegiate sporting competitions are held.
    12    2.  A  sports  venue  shall  not  prohibit an individual attending any
    13  professional or collegiate sporting competition  in  such  sports  venue
    14  from  bringing  a  reusable  beverage  container  into the sports venue;
    15  provided, however:
    16    (a) a sports venue may require that reusable  beverage  containers  be
    17  empty upon entering the sports venue.
    18    (b)  a  sports venue may restrict reusable beverage containers capable
    19  of holding more than twenty-four fluid ounces.
    20    3. Any sports venue that violates this section or any rule promulgated
    21  pursuant thereto shall be liable for a civil penalty  recoverable  in  a
    22  civil action.
    23    § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred twentieth day after
    24  it shall have become a law.


         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD15219-01-4