Senate Bill S8830

Signed By Governor
2017-2018 Legislative Session

Relates to ice cream or other frozen desserts made with wine, beer or cider

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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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2017-S8830 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A10827
Law Section:
Agriculture and Markets Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §200, Ag & Mkts L; amd §1352-c, Pub Health L; amd §3, ABC L

2017-S8830 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Permits the manufacture and sale of ice cream or other frozen desserts made with wine, beer or cider or any combination thereof; requires notice.

2017-S8830 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2017-S8830 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   8830
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                               May 23, 2018
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen.  SEWARD -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Agriculture
 
 AN ACT to amend the agriculture and markets law, the public  health  law
   and  the  alcoholic  beverage control law, in relation to ice cream or
   other frozen desserts made with wine, beer or cider
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  Subdivisions  14 and 15 of section 200 of the agriculture
 and markets law, as amended by chapter 42 of the laws of 2011,  subpara-
 graph  (i)  and  the opening paragraph of subparagraph (ii) of paragraph
 (a) of subdivision 15 as amended by chapter 40 of the laws of 2017,  are
 amended to read as follows:
   14.  If  it is ice cream or other frozen desserts made with wine, BEER
 OR CIDER bearing or containing more than  five  percent  of  alcohol  by
 volume.
   15.  With  respect  to  the manufacture and sale of ice cream or other
 frozen desserts made with wine, BEER OR CIDER bearing or containing more
 than one-half of one percent, but not more than five percent of  alcohol
 by volume:
   (a)  No  person  shall  sell  at retail packages of ice cream or other
 frozen desserts made with wine, BEER OR CIDER for  consumption  off  the
 premises where sold unless:
   (i) each package is a sealed package, as received from the manufactur-
 er or distributor;
   (ii)  each  sealed  package,  as  received  from  the  manufacturer or
 distributor, in a format to be established or approved  by  the  commis-
 sioner,  prominently  bears the following statements, PROVIDED THAT SUCH
 STATEMENTS MAY REFER TO EITHER WINE, BEER  OR  CIDER  OR  A  COMBINATION
 THEREOF:
   (A)  The  sale of this product to individuals under the age of twenty-
 one years is prohibited.
   (B) This product is made with [wine] (INSERT WINE, BEER AND/OR  CIDER)
 and contains alcohol up to five percent by volume.
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
              

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