Bill Text: NY S09330 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Allows certain reusable beverage containers in sports venues.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-05-28 - PRINT NUMBER 9330A [S09330 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S09330-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         9330--A

                    IN SENATE

                                      May 13, 2024
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        Introduced  by  Sen.  PARKER -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee  on  Consumer  Protection  --
          committee  discharged,  bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and
          recommitted to said committee

        AN ACT to amend the  general  business  law,  in  relation  to  allowing
          certain reusable beverage containers in sports venues

          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  391-r to read as follows:
     3    § 391-r.  Reusable  beverage  containers  in  sports  venues.  1.  For
     4  purposes  of  this section, the following terms shall have the following
     5  meanings:
     6    (a) "reusable beverage container" means  a  drinking  vessel  that  is
     7  composed  primarily  of aluminum or stainless steel, and is designed and
     8  manufactured to be capable of multiple reuses,  including  a  bottle  or
     9  cup.
    10    (b)  "sports  venue"  means  a  building, structure, or place in which
    11  professional or collegiate sporting competitions are held.
    12    2. A sports venue shall  not  prohibit  an  individual  attending  any
    13  professional  or  collegiate  sporting  competition in such sports venue
    14  from bringing a reusable  beverage  container  into  the  sports  venue;
    15  provided, however:
    16    (a)  a  sports  venue may require that reusable beverage containers be
    17  empty upon entering the sports venue;
    18    (b) a sports venue may require that the  reusable  beverage  container
    19  not contain a cap; and
    20    (c)  a  sports venue may restrict reusable beverage containers capable
    21  of holding more than twenty-four fluid ounces.
    22    3. Any sports venue that violates this section or any rule promulgated
    23  pursuant thereto shall be liable for a civil penalty not to exceed  five
    24  hundred dollars for the first violation, and seven hundred fifty dollars
    25  for any subsequent violation.
    26    § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred twentieth day after
    27  it shall have become a law.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD15219-05-4