Bill Text: NY S00104 | 2025-2026 | General Assembly | Introduced


Bill Title: Requires the chair of the state liquor authority to make quarterly reports to the governor and the legislature of the authority's enforcement activities for the preceding quarter.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2025-01-08 - REFERRED TO INVESTIGATIONS AND GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS [S00104 Detail]

Download: New_York-2025-S00104-Introduced.html



                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                           104

                               2025-2026 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                       (Prefiled)

                                     January 8, 2025
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sen.  COMRIE -- 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
          requiring  the  chair  of  the  state liquor authority to make certain
          quarterly reports

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

     1    Section 1. Section 18 of the alcoholic beverage control law is amended
     2  by adding a new subdivision 16 to read as follows:
     3    16.  (a) To make quarterly reports to the governor and the legislature
     4  of the authority's enforcement activities  for  the  preceding  quarter.
     5  Such  report  shall  be  made within twenty-five days of the end of each
     6  quarter and posted to the authority's website and the state's open  data
     7  portal,  in  a  machine-readable format. Such report shall include:  (i)
     8  information on the number of inspections aggregated statewide,  as  well
     9  as  disaggregated  by  county,  senate  and assembly districts, (ii) the
    10  conduct or complaint that resulted in such inspections,  (iii)  informa-
    11  tion  on the duration of inspections, including the time each inspection
    12  commences and the average time spent inside each establishment, (iv) any
    13  summonses issued, and the agencies responsible for such  summonses,  and
    14  fines  or  penalties incurred as a result, and (v) information on estab-
    15  lishment closures as a result  of  summonses  issued  pursuant  to  such
    16  inspections, including the average duration of such closures.
    17    (b)  No information that is otherwise required to be reported pursuant
    18  to this subdivision shall be reported in a manner that would violate any
    19  applicable provision of federal, state, or local  law  relating  to  the
    20  privacy of information.
    21    §  2. This act shall take effect on the first of January next succeed-
    22  ing the date on which it shall have become a law, provided, however that
    23  the amendments to section 18 of the alcoholic beverage control law  made
    24  by  section  one  of  this  act  shall not affect the expiration of such
    25  section and shall be deemed to expire therewith.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD00275-01-5
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