Bill Text: NY S02521 | 2025-2026 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Relates to the adoption of a good cause for disapproval standard for certain off-premises retail licenses by the liquor authority.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2026-08-10 - PRINT NUMBER 2521A [S02521 Detail]

Download: New_York-2025-S02521-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         2521--A

                               2025-2026 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                    January 21, 2025
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sen. SKOUFIS -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Commerce, Economic  Devel-
          opment and Small Business -- recommitted to the Committee on Commerce,
          Economic Development and Small Business in accordance with Senate Rule
          6,  sec.  8 -- reported favorably from said committee and committed to
          the Committee on Rules -- committee discharged, bill amended,  ordered
          reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee

        AN  ACT  to amend the alcoholic beverage control law, in relation to the
          adoption of a good cause for  disapproval  standard  for  off-premises
          retail licenses

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

     1    Section 1. Subdivision 6 of  section  63  of  the  alcoholic  beverage
     2  control law, as added by chapter 1024 of the laws of 1965, is amended to
     3  read as follows:
     4    6.  Determinations  under  this  section with respect to approving the
     5  issuance of a new license or under section one hundred  eleven  of  this
     6  chapter  with respect to the transfer to any other premises of a license
     7  issued hereunder, shall be made [in accordance with  public  convenience
     8  and  advantage]  unless there is good cause shown for disapproval by the
     9  liquor authority.
    10    § 2. Subdivision 4 of section 79 of  the  alcoholic  beverage  control
    11  law, as added by chapter 1024 of the laws of 1965, is amended to read as
    12  follows:
    13    4.  Determinations  under  this  section with respect to approving the
    14  issuance of a new license or under section one hundred  eleven  of  this
    15  chapter  with respect to the transfer to any other premises of a license
    16  issued hereunder shall be made [in accordance  with  public  convenience
    17  and  advantage]  unless there is good cause shown for disapproval by the
    18  liquor authority.
    19    § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.

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