Senate Bill S315

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Establishes a temporary New York craft beverage permit

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Current Bill Status - In Senate Committee Investigations And Government Operations Committee

  • 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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2025-S315 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Investigations And Government Operations
Law Section:
Alcoholic Beverage Control Law
Laws Affected:
Add §97-e, ABC L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2019-2020: S6653
2021-2022: S1745
2023-2024: S2722

2025-S315 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Establishes a temporary New York craft beverage permit for all New York state manufactured liquor, spirits, wine, beer, cider and mead for events located in a municipality with a population of less than one million.

2025-S315 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2025-S315 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                    315
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                                (PREFILED)
 
                              January 8, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sens.  SKOUFIS,  BORRELLO,  COONEY, HINCHEY, MAY, MYRIE,
   PERSAUD, ROLISON, STEC, WEBB -- read twice and  ordered  printed,  and
   when  printed  to  be committed to the Committee on Investigations and
   Government Operations

 AN ACT to amend the alcoholic  beverage  control  law,  in  relation  to
   establishing a temporary New York craft beverage permit
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. The alcoholic beverage control law is amended by  adding  a
 new section 97-e to read as follows:
   § 97-E. TEMPORARY NEW YORK CRAFT BEVERAGE PERMIT. THE LIQUOR AUTHORITY
 IS  HEREBY  AUTHORIZED TO ISSUE TEMPORARY PERMITS TO A LICENSED NEW YORK
 STATE FARM DISTILLERY, BREWERY, WINERY, CIDERY OR MEADERY, EFFECTIVE FOR
 A PERIOD NOT TO EXCEED TWENTY-FOUR CONSECUTIVE HOURS  TO  AUTHORIZE  THE
 SALE  OF  ALL  NEW  YORK STATE MANUFACTURED LIQUOR, SPIRITS, WINE, BEER,
 CIDER AND MEAD, AS AUTHORIZED TO BE SOLD IN NEW YORK TASTING  ROOMS,  AT
 OUTDOOR  OR INDOOR GATHERINGS, FUNCTIONS, OCCASIONS OR EVENTS LOCATED IN
 A MUNICIPALITY WITH A POPULATION OF LESS THAN ONE  MILLION,  WITHIN  THE
 HOURS  FIXED  BY  OR PURSUANT TO SUBDIVISION FIVE OF SECTION ONE HUNDRED
 SIX OF THIS CHAPTER, DURING WHICH ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES  MAY  LAWFULLY  BE
 SOLD  OR  SERVED  UPON  PREMISES LICENSED TO SELL ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES AT
 RETAIL FOR ON-PREMISES CONSUMPTION IN THE COMMUNITY IN WHICH IS  LOCATED
 THE  PREMISES  IN  WHICH  SUCH GATHERING, FUNCTION, OCCASION OR EVENT IS
 HELD. THE FEE FOR SUCH PERMIT SHALL BE FIFTY DOLLARS.  PERMITTEES  SHALL
 PROMINENTLY  DISPLAY  THEIR  NEW  YORK  STATE  FARM DISTILLERY, BREWERY,
 WINERY, CIDERY OR MEADERY PERMIT AT THE TEMPORARILY PERMITTED EVENT  FOR
 INSPECTION  BY  ANY REGULATORY AGENCY.   SUCH PERMIT AND THE EXERCISE OF
 THE PRIVILEGE GRANTED THEREBY SHALL BE SUBJECT  TO  SUCH  RULES  OF  THE
 LIQUOR AUTHORITY AS IT DEEMS NECESSARY.
   § 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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