Assembly Bill A10563A

2019-2020 Legislative Session

Relates to crediting any on-premises licensees or any manufacturing licensee with on-premises retail privileges for each day they were unable to operate due to COVID-19

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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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2019-A10563 - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S8452
Current Committee:
Senate Rules
Law Section:
Alcoholic Beverage Control
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2021-2022: A1235, S3877
2023-2024: S1441

2019-A10563 - Summary

Credits any on-premises licensees or any manufacturing licensee with on-premises retail privileges for each day they were unable to operate due to COVID-19; provides that such credits shall be used for such licensee's license renewal; provides for the repeal of such provisions upon expiration thereof.

2019-A10563 - Bill Text download pdf

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   10563
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                               June 3, 2020
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by COMMITTEE ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. Buttenschon)
   -- read once and referred to the Committee on Economic Development
 
 AN  ACT  to  amend  the  alcoholic  beverage control law, in relation to
   reducing the license fees for businesses that were unable  to  operate
   as  a result of the COVID-19 pandemic; and providing for the repeal of
   such provisions upon expiration thereof

   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Section 57 of the alcoholic beverage control law is amended
 by adding a new subdivision 3 to read as follows:
   3.  FOR  RENEWAL OF ANY LICENSE UNDER THIS ARTICLE FROM MARCH SEVENTH,
 TWO THOUSAND TWENTY THROUGH DECEMBER THIRTY-FIRST, TWO THOUSAND  TWENTY-
 ONE,  THE  LICENSE  FEE  SHALL BE REDUCED IN PROPORTION TO THE NUMBER OF
 MONTHS THAT THE LICENSE HOLDER WAS UNABLE TO SELL ALCOHOL ON  THE  PREM-
 ISES DUE TO EXECUTIVE ORDERS RELATED TO THE NOVEL CORONAVIRUS, COVID-19,
 PANDEMIC.
   §  2.  Section 67 of the alcoholic beverage control law, as amended by
 section 4 of part Z of chapter 85 of the laws of  2002,  is  amended  to
 read as follows:
   § 67. License  fees,  duration  of  licenses;  fee  for  part of year.
 Effective April first, nineteen hundred  eighty-three,  licenses  issued
 pursuant  to  sections  sixty-one,  sixty-two,  sixty-three, sixty-four,
 sixty-four-a and sixty-four-b of this article  shall  be  effective  for
 three years at three times that annual fee, except that, in implementing
 the  purposes  of  this section, the liquor authority shall schedule the
 commencement dates, duration and expiration dates thereof to provide for
 an equal cycle of  license  renewals  issued  under  each  such  section
 through  the  course of the fiscal year. Effective December first, nine-
 teen hundred ninety-eight, licenses issued pursuant to  sections  sixty-
 four,  sixty-four-a  and sixty-four-b of this article shall be effective
 for two years at two times that annual fee, except that, in implementing
 the purposes of this section, the liquor authority  shall  schedule  the
 commencement dates, duration and expiration dates thereof to provide for
 an  equal  cycle  of  license  renewals  issued  under each such section
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
              

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2019-A10563A (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S8452
Current Committee:
Senate Rules
Law Section:
Alcoholic Beverage Control
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2021-2022: A1235, S3877
2023-2024: S1441

2019-A10563A (ACTIVE) - Summary

Credits any on-premises licensees or any manufacturing licensee with on-premises retail privileges for each day they were unable to operate due to COVID-19; provides that such credits shall be used for such licensee's license renewal; provides for the repeal of such provisions upon expiration thereof.

2019-A10563A (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                 10563--A
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                               June 3, 2020
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by COMMITTEE ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. Buttenschon,
   Braunstein)  --  read  once  and referred to the Committee on Economic
   Development -- committee discharged, bill amended,  ordered  reprinted
   as amended and recommitted to said committee
 
 AN  ACT  to credit days to retail on-premises licensees that were unable
   to operate as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic; and providing for the
   repeal of such provisions upon expiration thereof
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary,
 any on-premises licensee and any manufacturing licensee with on-premises
 retail  privileges  that are licensed pursuant to the alcoholic beverage
 control law shall receive a credit to the next renewal of their  license
 on  a  pro-rata  basis  for each inactive day, up to a maximum of ninety
 days. An inactive day shall mean each day between  March  15,  2020  and
 December  31,  2020 that, due to the COVID-19 pandemic or the government
 response to the  pandemic,  the  licensee  was  closed,  or  ceased  all
 on-premises  retail  business functions that require a license under the
 alcoholic beverage control law. The on-premises licensee and  any  manu-
 facturing  licensee with on-premises retail privileges shall document to
 the state liquor authority, on a form provided  by  the  authority,  the
 number  of  inactive days, up to a maximum of ninety days, that they are
 claiming for a credit to  be  added  to  their  next  retail  on-premise
 license renewal.
   §  2.  This  act shall take effect immediately and shall expire and be
 deemed repealed January 1, 2023.
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD16501-02-0



              

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