Bill Text: NY S03281 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Amended


Bill Title: Authorizes the sale of cider, mead, braggot and wine at games of chance.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)

Status: (Passed) 2019-08-29 - SIGNED CHAP.188 [S03281 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-S03281-Amended.html



                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                         3281--A
            Cal. No. 590

                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                    February 5, 2019
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sens. KAPLAN, SANDERS -- read twice and ordered printed,
          and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Commerce, Econom-
          ic Development and Small Business  --  reported  favorably  from  said
          committee,  ordered  to  first  and  second report, ordered to a third
          reading, amended and ordered reprinted, retaining  its  place  in  the
          order of third reading

        AN  ACT  to  amend the general municipal law, in relation to authorizing
          the sale of cider, mead, braggot and wine at games of chance

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

     1    Section  1. Subdivision 3 of section 194 of the general municipal law,
     2  as amended by chapter 550 of the laws of 1994, is  amended  to  read  as
     3  follows:
     4    3.  [Service  of  alcoholic  beverages.]  Subject  to  the  applicable
     5  provisions of the alcoholic beverage control  law,  beer,  cider,  mead,
     6  braggot  and wine may be offered for sale during the conduct of games of
     7  chance on games of chance premises  as  such  premises  are  defined  in
     8  subdivision  nineteen of section one hundred eighty-six of this article;
     9  provided, however, that nothing herein shall be construed to  limit  the
    10  offering  for  sale  of any other alcoholic beverage in areas other than
    11  the games of chance premises or the sale of any other alcoholic beverage
    12  in premises where only the games of chance known as bell jar or  raffles
    13  are conducted.
    14    § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
    15  it shall have become a law.



         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD00475-05-9
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