Bill Text: NY S01656 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Relates to the sale of non-food wine or liquor supplies, accessories and/or barware.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2016-06-02 - referred to economic development [S01656 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-S01656-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         1656--B
                               2015-2016 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                    January 13, 2015
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        Introduced  by  Sen.  ROBACH -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Commerce, Economic  Devel-
          opment and Small Business -- recommitted to the Committee on Commerce,
          Economic Development and Small Business in accordance with Senate Rule
          6,  sec.  8 -- reported favorably from said committee and committed to
          the Committee  on  Finance  --  committee  discharged,  bill  amended,
          ordered  reprinted  as  amended  and  recommitted to said committee --
          committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as  amended  and
          recommitted to said committee
        AN  ACT  to amend the alcoholic beverage control law, in relation to the
          sale of non-food wine or liquor supplies, accessories and/or barware
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section  1.  Subdivision  4  of  section  63 of the alcoholic beverage
     2  control law, as amended by chapter 603 of the laws of 1992,  is  amended
     3  to read as follows:
     4    4.  No licensee under this section shall be engaged in any other busi-
     5  ness on the licensed premises. The sale of lottery  tickets,  when  duly
     6  authorized and lawfully conducted, the sale of corkscrews or the sale of
     7  ice  or  the  sale  of  publications, including prerecorded video and/or
     8  audio cassette tapes, designed to help educate consumers in their  know-
     9  ledge  and appreciation of wine and wine products, as defined in section
    10  three of this chapter,  or  the  sale  of  non-carbonated,  non-flavored
    11  mineral waters, spring waters and drinking waters or the [sale of glass-
    12  es  designed for the consumption of wine, racks designed for the storage
    13  of wine, and devices designed to minimize oxidation in bottles  of  wine
    14  which  have  been  uncorked]  sale  of non-food wine or liquor supplies,
    15  accessories and/or barware, which shall include, but not be limited  to,
    16  any  item utilized for the storage, transport, serving or consumption of
    17  wine or liquor or for decorative purposes whether sold as  single  items
    18  or  combined  into  a  package  containing wine or liquor, publications,
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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        S. 1656--B                          2
     1  subscription services, memberships, loyalty programs  and  education  in
     2  the  form  of  live,  webinar  or  prerecorded  content designed to help
     3  educate consumers in their knowledge, use, consumption and  appreciation
     4  of alcoholic beverages, including recipes and food and beverage pairing,
     5  and  wine-making  and cider-making equipment and supplies including, but
     6  not limited to, home wine-making and cider-making kits, presses,  pumps,
     7  bottling  equipment, filters, yeasts, chemicals and other wine and cider
     8  additives, storage or fermenting vessels, barrels,  tools  and  devices,
     9  shall  not constitute engaging in another business within the meaning of
    10  this subdivision.
    11    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.