Bill Text: NY S04352 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Amended
Bill Title: Authorizes retail licenses to sell liquor for on-premises consumption at airline lounges located within an airport and owned, leased, or operated by a United States certified airline.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Engrossed) 2024-06-04 - referred to economic development [S04352 Detail]
Download: New_York-2023-S04352-Amended.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 4352--A 2023-2024 Regular Sessions IN SENATE February 7, 2023 ___________ Introduced by Sen. SKOUFIS -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Investigations and Govern- ment Operations -- 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 authorizing retail licenses to sell liquor for on-premises consumption at airline lounges 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 a new subdivision 39 to read as follows: 3 39. "Airline lounge" means and includes any premises located within an 4 airport and such premises is owned, leased, or operated by a United 5 States certificated airline which regularly and in a bona fide manner 6 furnishes provisions and services therein. 7 § 2. Subdivision 6 of section 64-a of the alcohol beverage control 8 law, as amended by chapter 475 of the laws of 2011, is amended to read 9 as follows: 10 6. No special on-premises license shall be granted except for premises 11 in which the principal business shall be: (a) the sale of food or bever- 12 ages at retail for consumption on the premises [or]; (b) an airline 13 lounge; or (c) the operation of a legitimate theatre or such other 14 lawful adult entertainment or recreational facility as the liquor 15 authority, giving due regard to the convenience of the public and the 16 strict avoidance of sales prohibited by this chapter, shall by regu- 17 lation classify for eligibility. Nothing contained in this subdivision 18 shall be deemed to authorize the issuance of a license to a motion 19 picture theatre, except those meeting the definition of restaurant and 20 meals, and where all seating is at tables where meals are served. 21 § 3. Section 106 of the alcoholic beverage control law is amended by 22 adding a new subdivision 8-a to read as follows: EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD02928-04-3S. 4352--A 2 1 8-a. A license issued for such premises as are being conducted as an 2 airline lounge shall authorize the holder thereof to sell at retail or 3 give away alcoholic beverages only to persons with certain airline tick- 4 et or lounge access privileges and loyalty program members as authorized 5 by such licensee and only for consumption on the premises where sold. 6 Food shall be made regularly available for sale or otherwise to such 7 persons for consumption on the premises. 8 § 4. This act shall take effect immediately.