Bill Text: NY S06597 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Requires restaurants and persons authorized to sell alcoholic beverages to have tangible menus available upon request.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Engrossed) 2024-01-03 - REFERRED TO CONSUMER PROTECTION [S06597 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S06597-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         6597--A
            Cal. No. 1357

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                     April 28, 2023
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        Introduced  by Sen. KAVANAGH -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee  on  Consumer  Protection  --
          reported  favorably  from  said  committee,  ordered  to first report,
          amended on first report,  ordered  to  a  second  report  and  ordered
          reprinted, retaining its place in the order of second report

        AN  ACT  to  amend  the  general  business law, in relation to requiring
          restaurants and persons authorized to sell alcoholic beverages to have
          tangible menus available upon request

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

     1    Section 1. The general business law is amended by adding a new section
     2  396-uu to read as follows:
     3    §  396-uu.  Tangible  menus.  Any  restaurant or licensee possessing a
     4  retail license for on-premises consumption subject to the provisions  of
     5  section  one  hundred  six  of the alcoholic beverage control law shall,
     6  upon the request of a customer, make available  a  printed  or  tangible
     7  menu  communicating  essential  information about the beverages and food
     8  available for sale by such restaurant or  licensee.    A  tangible  menu
     9  shall include legible signage posted on a wall or in another conspicuous
    10  location.    Under  no  circumstances  shall  the only menu available be
    11  accessible exclusively through digital or online means. For the purposes
    12  of this section, the terms "restaurant" and "licensee"  shall  have  the
    13  same meaning as those terms are defined in section three of the alcohol-
    14  ic beverage control law.
    15    §  2.  This  act shall take effect on the thirtieth day after it shall
    16  have become a law.


         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD00271-05-3