Bill Text: NY S06531 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to the consumption of alcohol by students under the age of twenty-one who are enrolled in certain courses of study.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-06-15 - SUBSTITUTED BY A9056 [S06531 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-S06531-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          6531
                    IN SENATE
                                    January 22, 2016
                                       ___________
        Introduced  by  Sen.  BOYLE  -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Alcoholism and Drug Abuse
        AN ACT to amend the alcoholic beverage control law, in relation  to  the
          consumption of alcohol by students under the age of twenty-one who are
          enrolled in certain courses of study
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. Subdivision 5 of  section  65  of  the  alcoholic  beverage
     2  control  law,  as amended by chapter 107 of the laws of 1986, is amended
     3  to read as follows:
     4    5. The provisions of subdivision one of this section shall  not  apply
     5  to  a person who gives or causes to be given any such alcoholic beverage
     6  to a person under the age of twenty-one years, who is  a  student  in  a
     7  curriculum  licensed or registered by the state education department and
     8  is required to taste or imbibe alcoholic beverages in courses which  are
     9  part  of  the required curriculum, provided such alcoholic beverages are
    10  used only for instructional purposes during [classes] on-campus or  off-
    11  campus courses conducted pursuant to such curriculum.
    12    §  2.  Paragraph (a) of subdivision 2 of section 65-c of the alcoholic
    13  beverage control law, as added by chapter 592 of the laws  of  1989,  is
    14  amended to read as follows:
    15    (a)  to  a  person who is a student in a curriculum licensed or regis-
    16  tered by the state education department and the student is  required  to
    17  taste  or  imbibe alcoholic beverages in on-campus or off-campus courses
    18  which are a part of the required  curriculum,  provided  such  alcoholic
    19  beverages   are  used  only  for  instructional  purposes  during  class
    20  conducted pursuant to such curriculum; or
    21    § 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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