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Assembly Bill A7594

2017-2018 Legislative Session

Relates to adding koji based distilled spirits to the license to sell wine at retail for consumption on the premises

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2017-A7594 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S4768
Current Committee:
Assembly Economic Development
Law Section:
Alcoholic Beverage Control Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §81, ABC L

2017-A7594 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Adds koji (a fungus) based distilled spirits to the license to sell wine at retail for consumption on the premises.

2017-A7594 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   7594
 
                        2017-2018 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                                May 3, 2017
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by M. of A. GUNTHER -- read once and referred to the Commit-
   tee on Economic Development
 
 AN ACT to amend the alcoholic beverage control law, in relation to koji
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   Section  1.  Subdivision  3  of  section  81 of the alcoholic beverage
 control law, as amended by chapter 627 of the laws of 2002,  is  amended
 to read as follows:
   3.  Such  license  shall  in form and in substance be a license to the
 person specifically licensed to sell wine at retail, to be consumed upon
 the premises. Such license shall also be deemed to include a license  to
 sell  beer  [and], soju AND KOJI BASED DISTILLED SPIRITS at retail to be
 consumed under the same terms and conditions without the payment of  any
 additional  fee. For the purposes of this subdivision, "soju" shall mean
 an imported Korean alcoholic beverage that contains not more than  twen-
 ty-four  per centum alcohol, by volume, and is derived from agricultural
 products, AND "KOJI BASED DISTILLED  SPIRITS"  SHALL  MEAN  ANY  SPIRIT,
 PRODUCED  BY A HOLDER OF A CLASS D DISTILLER'S LICENSE, AT OR LOWER THAN
 TWENTY-FOUR PERCENT ALCOHOL BY VOLUME, IN WHICH  ASPERGILLUS  ORYZAE,  A
 FILAMENTOUS   FUNGUS,   IS  UTILIZED  IN  THE  SACCHARIFICATION  IN  THE
 PRODUCTION OF THE MASH USED TO PRODUCE THE SPIRIT,  AND  WHICH  HAS  NOT
 USED GERMINATED CEREAL GRAINS THAT HAVE BEEN DRIED IN A PROCESS KNOWN AS
 MALTING FOR STARCH CONSERVATION.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD08309-03-7

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