Bill Text: NY A10387 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Removes the requirement of the state liquor authority to have not more than two members of the authority belong to the same political party.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-05-21 - referred to economic development [A10387 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A10387-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          10387

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                      May 21, 2024
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        Introduced   by   COMMITTEE  ON  RULES  --  (at  request  of  M.  of  A.
          Bichotte Hermelyn) -- read once  and  referred  to  the  Committee  on
          Economic Development

        AN  ACT  to  amend  the  alcoholic  beverage control law, in relation to
          removing the requirement of the state liquor  authority  to  have  not
          more  than  two  members of the authority belong to the same political
          party

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

     1    Section  1.  Section  11  of  the  alcoholic  beverage control law, as
     2  amended by section 2 of part E of chapter 57 of the  laws  of  2011,  is
     3  amended to read as follows:
     4    §  11. Appointment of authority. The members of the authority shall be
     5  appointed by the governor by and with the  advice  and  consent  of  the
     6  senate.  [Not more than two members of the authority shall belong to the
     7  same political party.] The chairman  of  the  state  alcoholic  beverage
     8  control  board  heretofore  appointed and designated by the governor and
     9  the remaining members of such board heretofore appointed by the governor
    10  shall continue to serve as chairman and members of the  authority  until
    11  the  expiration  of  the respective terms for which they were appointed.
    12  Upon the expiration of such respective  terms  the  successors  of  such
    13  chairman  and  members  shall  be appointed to serve for a term of three
    14  years each and until their successors have been appointed and qualified.
    15  The commissioners, other than the chairman shall,  when  performing  the
    16  work  of  the  authority,  be compensated at a rate of two hundred sixty
    17  dollars per day, together with an allowance  for  actual  and  necessary
    18  expenses  incurred  in the discharge of their duties. The chairman shall
    19  receive an annual salary established in section one  hundred  sixty-nine
    20  of the executive law.
    21    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.


         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD14790-01-4