Senate Bill S1263

Signed By Governor
2019-2020 Legislative Session

Relates to taxation of mead and mead products

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  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2019-S1263 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A3635
Law Section:
Tax Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §§420 & 1115, Tax L; amd §61-a, ABC L

2019-S1263 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Includes mead in various alcohol taxes and licenses.

2019-S1263 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2019-S1263 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   1263
 
                        2019-2020 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             January 11, 2019
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen. METZGER -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules
 
 AN ACT to amend the tax law and the alcoholic beverage control  law,  in
   relation to mead
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   Section 1. Subdivision 6 of section 420 of the tax law, as amended  by
 chapter 29 of the laws of 1939, is amended to read as follows:
   6.  "Wines"  mean  and include wine (both still and sparkling and when
 fortified by the addition of alcohol or spirits),  MEAD  AS  DEFINED  IN
 SECTION  THREE  OF  THE  ALCOHOLIC  BEVERAGE  CONTROL  LAW,  fruit juice
 containing one-half of one per centum or more of alcohol by  volume  and
 all  other  beverages containing alcohol manufactured or produced by the
 fermentation of the natural sugar contents of fruits or  other  agricul-
 tural products containing sugar, provided the foregoing contain not more
 than  twenty-four per centum of alcohol by volume, but shall not mean or
 include cider containing three and two-tenths per centum,  or  less,  of
 alcohol by volume.
   §  2.  Paragraph 33 of subdivision (a) of section 1115 of the tax law,
 as amended by chapter 418 of the laws of 2017, is  amended  to  read  as
 follows:
   (33)  Wine or wine product, beer or beer product, cider or cider prod-
 uct, liquor or liquor product, MEAD OR MEAD PRODUCT, and the kegs, cans,
 bottles, growlers, corks, caps, and labels used to package such alcohol-
 ic product, furnished by the official agent of a  farm  winery,  winery,
 brewery,  farm  brewery,  cider  producer, farm cidery, distillery, farm
 distillery, MEAD PRODUCER, FARM MEADERY, wholesaler, or  importer  at  a
 [wine,  beer, cider or liquor] tasting held in accordance with the alco-
 holic beverage control law to a customer  or  prospective  customer  who
 consumes such wine, beer, cider [or], liquor OR MEAD at such tasting.

  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD07021-01-9

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