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S7909 • 2025

Relates to off premise retail license holders

Relates to off premise retail license holders

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Sponsor
James Skoufis
Last action
2026-04-29
Official status
In Senate Committee
Effective date
Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

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Relates to off premise retail license holders

Relates to off premise retail license holders Relates to off premise retail license holders; increases the number of licenses authorized under section 63 of the alcoholic beverage control law from one to two licenses.

What This Bill Does

  • Relates to off premise retail license holders Relates to off premise retail license holders; increases the number of licenses authorized under section 63 of the alcoholic beverage control law from one to two licenses.

Limits and Unknowns

  • This entry is temporarily using official source text because the generated explanation could not be confirmed against the official bill text during the last sync.

Bill History

  1. 2026-04-29 Senate

    REPORTED AND COMMITTED TO FINANCE

  2. 2026-01-07 Senate

    REFERRED TO COMMERCE, ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND SMALL BUSINESS

  3. 2025-05-28 Senate

    REPORTED AND COMMITTED TO FINANCE

  4. 2025-05-28 Senate

    REPORTED AND COMMITTED TO FINANCE

  5. 2025-05-13 Senate

    REFERRED TO COMMERCE, ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND SMALL BUSINESS

Official Summary Text

Relates to off premise retail license holders
Relates to off premise retail license holders; increases the number of licenses authorized under section 63 of the alcoholic beverage control law from one to two licenses.

Current Bill Text

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S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                          7909

                               2025-2026 Regular Sessions

                                    I N  S E N A T E

                                      May 13, 2025
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sen. SKOUFIS -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Commerce, Economic  Devel-
          opment and Small Business

        AN  ACT  to amend the alcoholic beverage control law, in relation to off
          premise retail license holders

          THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
        BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

     1    Section  1.  Subdivision  5  of  section  63 of the alcoholic beverage
     2  control law is amended to read as follows:
     3    5. Not more than [one license] TWO LICENSES shall be  granted  to  any
     4  person under this section.
     5    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.







         EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD13008-01-5