S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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5766
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
I N A S S E M B L Y
February 19, 2019
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Introduced by M. of A. WOERNER -- read once and referred to the Commit-
tee on Economic Development
AN ACT to amend the alcoholic beverage control law, in relation to the
definition of New York state labelled beer
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
Section 1. Paragraphs (b) and (c) of subdivision 20-d of section 3 of
the alcoholic beverage control law, as added by chapter 108 of the laws
of 2012, are amended to read as follows:
(b) from January first, two thousand nineteen until December thirty-
first, two thousand twenty-three, beer made with no less than sixty
percent, by weight, of its hops grown in New York state and no less than
sixty percent, by weight, of all of its other ingredients, excluding
water, grown AND PROCESSED in New York state; and
(c) from January first, two thousand twenty-four and thereafter, beer
made with no less than ninety percent, by weight, of its hops grown in
New York state and no less than ninety percent, by weight, of all of its
other ingredients, excluding water, grown AND PROCESSED in New York
state.
§ 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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