Bill Text: NY S04768 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Adds koji (a fungus) based distilled spirits to the license to sell wine at retail for consumption on the premises.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-06-20 - COMMITTED TO RULES [S04768 Detail]

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          4768
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                    February 28, 2017
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        Introduced  by  Sen. BONACIC -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Commerce, Economic  Devel-
          opment and Small Business
        AN ACT to amend the alcoholic beverage control law, in relation to koji
          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  81  of  the  alcoholic  beverage
     2  control  law,  as amended by chapter 627 of the laws of 2002, is amended
     3  to read as follows:
     4    3. Such license shall in form and in substance be  a  license  to  the
     5  person specifically licensed to sell wine at retail, to be consumed upon
     6  the  premises. Such license shall also be deemed to include a license to
     7  sell beer [and], soju and koji based distilled spirits at retail  to  be
     8  consumed  under the same terms and conditions without the payment of any
     9  additional fee. For the purposes of this subdivision, "soju" shall  mean
    10  an  imported Korean alcoholic beverage that contains not more than twen-
    11  ty-four per centum alcohol, by volume, and is derived from  agricultural
    12  products, and "koji based distilled spirits" shall mean any spirit at or
    13  lower  than  twenty-four percent alcohol by volume, in which aspergillus
    14  oryzae, a filamentous fungus, is utilized in the saccharification in the
    15  production of the mash used to produce the spirit,  and  which  has  not
    16  used germinated cereal grains that have been dried in a process known as
    17  malting for starch conservation.
    18    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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