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                        2019-2020 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             February 19, 2019
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 Introduced  by M. of A. WOERNER -- read once and referred to the Commit-
   tee on Economic Development
 
 AN ACT to amend the alcoholic beverage control law, in relation  to  the
   definition of New York state labelled beer
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   Section 1. Paragraphs (b) and (c) of subdivision 20-d of section 3  of
 the  alcoholic beverage control law, as added by chapter 108 of the laws
 of 2012, are amended to read as follows:
   (b) from January first, two thousand nineteen until  December  thirty-
 first,  two  thousand  twenty-three,  beer  made with no less than sixty
 percent, by weight, of its hops grown in New York state and no less than
 sixty percent, by weight, of all of  its  other  ingredients,  excluding
 water, grown AND PROCESSED in New York state; and
   (c)  from January first, two thousand twenty-four and thereafter, beer
 made with no less than ninety percent, by weight, of its hops  grown  in
 New York state and no less than ninety percent, by weight, of all of its
 other  ingredients,  excluding  water,  grown  AND PROCESSED in New York
 state.
   § 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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