Bill Text: NY A09745 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires farm breweries to use New York grown hops in New York labelled beer.

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-02-07 - referred to economic development [A09745 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A09745-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          9745

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    February 7, 2020
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  M.  of A. LUPARDO, BUTTENSCHON, JONES, WILLIAMS, ABBATE,
          CARROLL, GRIFFIN,  SAYEGH,  ZEBROWSKI,  BLANKENBUSH,  CROUCH,  HAWLEY,
          B. MILLER,  ASHBY,  KOLB,  MANKTELOW, MORINELLO, PALMESANO, SMULLEN --
          Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. BYRNES, SIMON -- read once and referred
          to the Committee on Economic Development

        AN ACT to amend the alcoholic beverage control law, in relation  to  the
          use of New York grown hops by farm breweries

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

     1    Section 1. Paragraph (a) of subdivision 11  of  section  51-a  of  the
     2  alcoholic  beverage  control law, as added by chapter 108 of the laws of
     3  2012, is amended to read as follows:
     4    (a) Except as provided in  paragraph  (b)  of  this  subdivision,  [no
     5  licensed  farm brewery shall manufacture or sell any beer other than New
     6  York state labelled beer] a licensed farm brewery shall  manufacture  or
     7  sell  New York labelled beer and may manufacture or sell beer other than
     8  New York labelled beer provided that the total annual aggregate of  hops
     9  used  by  the  farm  brewery  licensee  is no less than sixty percent by
    10  weight grown in New York state and that the total aggregate use of other
    11  ingredients except water is no less than sixty percent by  weight  grown
    12  in New York.
    13    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.





         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD14908-01-0