NY State Senate Bill 2019-S4999

Senate Bill S4999

2019-2020 Legislative Session

Prohibits the erection or maintenance of billboards advertising alcoholic beverages within 1000 feet of schools and playgrounds

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Jan 08, 2020	referred to consumer protection
Apr 03, 2019	referred to consumer protection

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2019-S4999 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:: A1861
Current Committee:: Senate Consumer Protection
Law Section:: General Business Law
Laws Affected:: Add §397-b, Gen Bus L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:: 2009-2010: S2958, A5635
2011-2012: S3637, A3659
2013-2014: S2727, S6269, A3646
2015-2016: S2869, A5901
2017-2018: S2713, A6978
2021-2022: S5464, A2523
2023-2024: S7143

2019-S4999 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Prohibits the erection or maintenance of billboards advertising alcoholic beverages within 1000 feet of schools and playgrounds; defines billboards.

2019-S4999 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

                                
 
BILL NUMBER: S4999

SPONSOR: PARKER
 
TITLE OF BILL:  An act to amend the general business law, in relation
to billboards advertising alcoholic beverages

 
PURPOSE:

Prohibits the erection or maintenance of billboards advertising alcohol-
ic beverages within 1,000 feet of schools or playgrounds.

 
SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS:

Section 1: amends the general business law by adding a new section 397-b
to restrict billboard advertisements of alcoholic beverages from being
within 1,000 feet of any school or any playground adjacent to a school.

 
JUSTIFICATION:

Increasingly our school's curriculum is focusing our children's atten-

tion on the effects of alcohol, drugs, and tobacco. We must be support-
ive of our school's efforts in teaching our children to abstain from
controlled or illegal substances. The Drug Free School Zone must be
expanded to restrict billboard advertisements of controlled substances
to a minimum of 1,000 feet within a school or an adjacent playground. If
we allow these billboard advertisements to be in such close proximity to
our school, we are being inconsistent in our message.

As a result, of the tobacco settlement, advertisement of tobacco
products is prohibited near schools. However, there is still a need to
restrict the advertisement of alcoholic beverages near a school

 
LEGISLATIVE HISTORY:

2017-18: S.2713 Referred to Consumer Protection
S.2869(2016) - Referred to Consumer Protection
S.2869(2015) - Referred to Consumer Protection
S.6269(2014) - Referred to Consumer Protection
S.2727(2013) - Referred to Consumer Protection
S.3637(2012) - Referred to Consumer Protection
S.2958(2009) - Reported and Committed to Finance

 
FISCAL IMPLICATIONS:

None.

 
EFFECTIVE DATE:
This act shall take effect 1 year after it shall have become a law.

2019-S4999 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   4999
 
                        2019-2020 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                               April 3, 2019
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sens.  PARKER, COMRIE -- read twice and ordered printed,
   and when  printed  to  be  committed  to  the  Committee  on  Consumer
   Protection
 
 AN  ACT  to  amend  the  general business law, in relation to billboards
   advertising alcoholic beverages
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.    The  general  business  law  is amended by adding a new
 section 397-b to read as follows:
   § 397-B.   BILLBOARDS ADVERTISING ALCOHOLIC  BEVERAGES.  NO  BILLBOARD
 ADVERTISING ANY ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGE SHALL BE ERECTED OR MAINTAINED WITHIN
 ONE  THOUSAND  FEET OF (1) ANY PUBLIC OR PRIVATE ELEMENTARY OR SECONDARY
 SCHOOL OR (2) ANY PLAYGROUND ADJACENT TO OR WITHIN ONE THOUSAND FEET  OF
 ANY  PRIVATE  OR  PUBLIC ELEMENTARY OR SECONDARY SCHOOL. FOR PURPOSES OF
 THIS SECTION, THE TERM "BILLBOARD" SHALL INCLUDE  ANY  BILLBOARD,  SIGN,
 NOTICE,  POSTER,  DISPLAY OR OTHER STATIONARY DEVICE INTENDED TO ATTRACT
 OR WHICH DOES ATTRACT THE ATTENTION OF OPERATORS OF  MOTOR  VEHICLES  OR
 PEDESTRIANS.
   §  2.  This  act shall take effect one year after the date on which it
 shall have become a law.
 
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD00014-01-9

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Kevin S. Parker