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Feb 09, 2009 |
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Senate Bill S1864
2009-2010 Legislative Session
Sponsored By
(D) Senate District
Archive: Last Bill Status - In Senate Committee Mental Health And Developmental Disabilities Committee
- Introduced
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- In Committee Assembly
- In Committee Senate
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- On Floor Calendar Assembly
- On Floor Calendar Senate
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- Passed Assembly
- Passed Senate
- Delivered to Governor
- Signed By Governor
Actions
2009-S1864 (ACTIVE) - Details
- Current Committee:
- Senate Mental Health And Developmental Disabilities
- Law Section:
- Alcoholic Beverage Control Law
- Laws Affected:
- Amd ยง65-b, ABC L
2009-S1864 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo
BILL NUMBER: S1864 TITLE OF BILL : An act to amend the alcoholic beverage control law, in relation to the attempt to purchase an alcoholic beverage through fraudulent means PURPOSE OR GENERAL IDEA OF BILL : Makes the use of an electronic scanning device, currently optional, mandatory to ensure the accuracy of the written identification used to establish proof of legal age to purchase alcoholic beverages. SUMMARY OF SPECIFIC PROVISIONS : Amends paragraph (b) of subdivision 2 of section 65-b of the alcoholic beverage control law , as amended by chapter 519 of the laws of 1999 to provide that the written identification offered to establish legal age to purchase alcohol shall be scanned by a device capable of deciphering its electronically readable content to ensure that the accuracy of those contents, as a precondition to the sale of any alcoholic beverage. JUSTIFICATION : New York has enacted a series of strong laws designed to reduce access by minors to alcohol and tobacco to anyone under age 21. Chapter 519 of the laws of 1999, established a voluntary procedure by which retailers, restaurants, bars, clubs and other places of entertainment
2009-S1864 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K ________________________________________________________________________ 1864 2009-2010 Regular Sessions I N S E N A T E February 9, 2009 ___________ Introduced by Sen. KLEIN -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Mental Health and Develop- mental Disabilities AN ACT to amend the alcoholic beverage control law, in relation to the attempt to purchase an alcoholic beverage through fraudulent means THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM- BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS: Section 1. Paragraph (b) of subdivision 2 of section 65-b of the alco- holic beverage control law, as amended by chapter 519 of the laws of 1999, is amended to read as follows: (b) No licensee, or agent or employee of such licensee shall accept as written evidence of age by any such person for the purchase of any alco- holic beverage, any documentation other than: (i) a valid driver's license or non-driver identification card issued by the commissioner of motor vehicles, the federal government, any United States territory, commonwealth or possession, the District of Columbia, a state government within the United States or a provincial government of the dominion of Canada, or (ii) a valid passport issued by the United States government or any other country, or (iii) an identification card issued by the armed forces of the United States. Upon the presentation of such driv- er's license or non-driver identification card issued by a governmental entity, such licensee or agent or employee thereof [may] SHALL perform a transaction scan as a precondition to the sale of any alcoholic bever- age. Nothing in this section shall prohibit a licensee or agent or employee from performing such a transaction scan on any of the other documents listed in this subdivision if such documents include a bar code or magnetic strip that [that] may be scanned by a device capable of deciphering any electronically readable format. S 2. This act shall take effect immediately, provided, however, that the amendments to paragraph (b) of subdivision 2 of section 65-b of the alcoholic beverage control law made by section one of this act shall not affect the expiration of such section and shall be deemed to expire therewith. EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
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