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Assembly Bill A11437

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Relates to license fees required to be paid by wholesale beer licensees to sell cider

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2025-A11437 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S10172
Law Section:
Alcoholic Beverage Control Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §58-a, ABC L

2025-A11437 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires wholesale beer licensees to only need to pay a one time additional license fee to sell cider.

2025-A11437 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   11437
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                               May 15, 2026
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  COMMITTEE ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. Stirpe) --
   read once and referred to the Committee on Economic Development
 
 AN ACT to amend the alcoholic  beverage  control  law,  in  relation  to
   license  fees  required to be paid by wholesale beer licensees to sell
   cider
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  Section  58-a  of  the alcoholic beverage control law, as
 amended by chapter 204 of the laws  of  1963,  is  amended  to  read  as
 follows:
   § 58-a. Sale  of  cider by wholesale beer licensees.  A wholesale beer
 licensee, as defined under this chapter shall, upon the  payment  of  an
 additional  [annual]  license  fee  of  [one  hundred twenty-five] THREE
 HUNDRED SEVENTY-FIVE dollars, be permitted  to  sell  cider  as  defined
 under  this  chapter  at  wholesale from duly licensed premises, to duly
 licensed beer, wine  and  liquor  retailers  and  to  other  holders  of
 licenses  under  this chapter, in bottles, barrels or casks, and to sell
 and deliver cider to persons outside the state pursuant to the  laws  of
 the  place  of such delivery. THE TERM OF SUCH LICENSE SHALL RUN CONCUR-
 RENTLY  WITH THE TERM OF THE WHOLESALE LICENSE ESTABLISHED AS SET  FORTH
 IN  SECTION  FIFTY-SEVEN-A  OF  THIS  CHAPTER. The provisions of section
 fifty-seven OF THIS CHAPTER shall apply to licenses issued hereunder  to
 sell cider at wholesale pursuant to the provisions of this section.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD15749-01-6

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