Bill Text: NY A09890 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Amended

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

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 15-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-05-22 - reported referred to codes [A09890 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A09890-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         9890--B

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                     April 26, 2024
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by M. of A. BURGOS, LUPARDO, GLICK, STIRPE, FALL, LEVENBERG,
          SOLAGES, LUNSFORD, ZACCARO, EPSTEIN, DINOWITZ, KELLES,  CLARK,  GONZA-
          LEZ-ROJAS  --  read  once  and  referred  to the Committee on Consumer
          Affairs and Protection -- committee discharged, bill amended,  ordered
          reprinted  as  amended  and  recommitted  to  said  committee -- again
          reported from said committee with  amendments,  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

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD15219-04-4
        A. 9890--B                          2

     1  hundred dollars for the first violation, and seven hundred fifty dollars
     2  for any subsequent violation.
     3    § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred twentieth day after
     4  it shall have become a law.