Bill Text: NY S06229 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | 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]
Download: New_York-2023-S06229-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 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
