Bill Text: NY S01757 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Amended
Bill Title: Prohibits the sale or offering for sale of any powdered or crystalline alcohol product.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Passed) 2015-08-14 - SIGNED CHAP.231 [S01757 Detail]
Download: New_York-2015-S01757-Amended.html
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K ________________________________________________________________________ 1757--A 2015-2016 Regular Sessions I N S E N A T E January 14, 2015 ___________ Introduced by Sens. GRIFFO, HANNON, CROCI, VALESKY -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Investigations and Government Operations -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said commit- tee AN ACT to amend the alcoholic beverage control law, in relation to prohibiting the sale of any powdered or crystalline alcohol product THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM- BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS: 1 Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section 3 of the alcoholic beverage 2 control law, as amended by chapter 42 of the laws of 2011, is amended to 3 read as follows: 4 1. "Alcoholic beverage" or "beverage" mean and include alcohol, spir- 5 its, liquor, wine, beer, cider and every liquid [or], solid, POWDER OR 6 CRYSTAL, patented or not, containing alcohol, spirits, wine or beer and 7 capable of being consumed by a human being, and any warehouse receipt, 8 certificate, contract or other document pertaining thereto; except that 9 confectionery containing alcohol as provided by subdivision twelve of 10 section two hundred of the agriculture and markets law and ice cream and 11 other frozen desserts made with wine as provided in subdivision fifteen 12 of section two hundred of the agriculture and markets law shall not be 13 regulated as an "alcoholic beverage" or "beverage" within the meaning of 14 this section where the sale, delivery or giving away is to a person aged 15 twenty-one years or older. The sale, delivery or giving away of ice 16 cream made with wine to a person under the age of twenty-one years may 17 be prosecuted administratively and/or criminally in accordance with the 18 provisions of this chapter. 19 S 2. Section 100 of the alcoholic beverage control law is amended by 20 adding a new subdivision 1-a to read as follows: 21 1-A. NO PERSON SHALL SELL, OFFER FOR SALE, OR OTHERWISE PROVIDE FOR 22 THE CONSUMPTION OF ANY POWDERED OR CRYSTALLINE ALCOHOLIC PRODUCT. 23 S 3. This act shall take effect on the thirtieth day after it shall 24 have become a law. EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD05265-03-5