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Senate Bill S6180

2019-2020 Legislative Session

Relates to the definition of wine

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2019-S6180 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Investigations And Government Operations
Law Section:
Alcoholic Beverage Control Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §3, ABC L

2019-S6180 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to the definition of wine.

2019-S6180 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2019-S6180 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   6180
 
                        2019-2020 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                               May 21, 2019
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by Sen. METZGER -- (at request of the State Liquor Authority)
   -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to
   the Committee on Investigations and Government Operations
 
 AN  ACT  to amend the alcoholic beverage control law, in relation to the
   definition of wine

   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  Subdivision  36  of  section  3 of the alcoholic beverage
 control law, as amended by chapter 548 of the laws of 2008,  is  amended
 to read as follows:
   36.  "Wine"  means the product of the normal alcoholic fermentation of
 the juice of fresh, sound, ripe grapes,  or  other  [fruits  or  plants]
 AGRICULTURAL  PRODUCTS  with  the  usual  cellar treatment and necessary
 additions to correct defects due to climatic,  saccharine  and  seasonal
 conditions,  including  champagne,  sparkling  and  fortified wine of an
 alcoholic content not to exceed twenty-four per centum by  volume.  Wine
 produced from fruits or plants OR OTHER AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTS other than
 grapes  shall  include  appropriate prefixes descriptive of the fruit or
 the product from which such wine  was  predominantly  produced,  and  no
 other  product shall be called "wine" unless designated as artificial or
 imitation wine.
   § 2. Subdivision 20-a of section 3 of the alcoholic  beverage  control
 law,  as  amended by chapter 571 of the laws of 2008, is amended to read
 as follows:
   20-a. "New York state labelled wine" means wine made  from  grapes  or
 other  [fruits] AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTS, at least seventy-five percent the
 volume of which were grown in New York state.
   § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD09266-01-9

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