Bill Text: NY A00153 | 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: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-01-05 - referred to economic development [A00153 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-A00153-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         153--B

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                       (Prefiled)

                                     January 6, 2021
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        Introduced  by  M.  of A. GUNTHER, BRABENEC -- read once and referred to
          the Committee on Economic Development --  committee  discharged,  bill
          amended,  ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said commit-
          tee -- again reported from said  committee  with  amendments,  ordered
          reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee

        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.
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