Bill Text: NY S06229 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Senate Bill 6229

Introduced

Bill Title: Includes within the definition of "wine product", a beverage containing wine which has undergone an alcohol reduction process including but not limited to nanofiltration, reverse osmosis, osmotic distillation, vacuum distillation, spinning cone column, or through a multi-stage membrane-based system.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - REFERRED TO INVESTIGATIONS AND GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS [S06229 Detail]

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          6229

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                      April 5, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sen. HELMING -- 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  wine
          products

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

     1    Section 1. Subdivision 36-a of section 3  of  the  alcoholic  beverage
     2  control  law,  as amended by chapter 135 of the laws of 1985, is amended
     3  to read as follows:
     4    36-a. "Wine product" means a beverage  containing  wine  to  which  is
     5  added  concentrated  or unconcentrated juice, flavoring material, water,
     6  citric acid, sugar and carbon dioxide and containing not more  than  six
     7  per  centum alcohol by volume, to which nothing other than such wine has
     8  been added to increase the alcoholic content  of  such  beverage;  or  a
     9  beverage  containing wine which has undergone an alcohol reduction proc-
    10  ess including but not limited to nanofiltration, reverse osmosis, osmot-
    11  ic distillation, vacuum distillation, spinning cone column, or through a
    12  multi-stage membrane-based system.
    13    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.




         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD10705-01-3