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Assembly Bill A7639A

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Allows licensees to sell wine or liquor at retail to certain other licensees for resale for consumption off the premises

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2025-A7639 - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S370
Current Committee:
Assembly Economic Development
Law Section:
Alcoholic Beverage Control Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §105, ABC L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2021-2022: A10306, S8964
2023-2024: A353, A9060, S3460

2025-A7639 - Summary

Allows licensees to sell wine or liquor at retail for consumption off the premises to certain other licensees; allows such other licensees to resell such wine or liquor for consumption off the premises.

2025-A7639 - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   7639
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                               April 4, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by 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
   allowing cooperative agreements by licensees to sell wine or liquor at
   retail for consumption off the premises

   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  The alcoholic beverage control law is amended by adding a
 new section 106-c to read as follows:
   § 106-C. COOPERATIVE AGREEMENTS BY LICENSEES TO SELL WINE OR LIQUOR AT
 RETAIL FOR CONSUMPTION OFF THE PREMISES. NO MORE THAN TEN LICENSEES WITH
 LICENSES FOR THE SALE AT RETAIL  OF  WINE  OR  LIQUOR  FOR  OFF-PREMISES
 CONSUMPTION  AS  ESTABLISHED  IN SECTION SIXTY-THREE OR SECTION SEVENTY-
 NINE OF THIS CHAPTER, MAY JOIN A COOPERATIVE  AGREEMENT  TO  MAKE  JOINT
 PURCHASES  OF  ALCOHOLIC  BEVERAGES,  PROVIDED  THAT  SUCH AGREEMENT AND
 ACTIVITY SHALL CONFORM TO THE FOLLOWING STANDARDS:
   1. THE COOPERATIVE MAY HIRE EMPLOYEES TO ACT IN AN  ADMINISTRATIVE  OR
 MANAGEMENT  CAPACITY  FOR THE COOPERATIVE'S PURCHASE, STORAGE AND TRANS-
 PORTATION OF ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES.  SUCH EMPLOYEES SHALL BE IN COMPLIANCE
 WITH SECTIONS ONE HUNDRED TWENTY-SIX AND  ONE  HUNDRED  TWENTY-EIGHT  OF
 THIS ARTICLE;
   2.  NO  COOPERATIVE AGREEMENT SHALL PROHIBIT ANY LICENSEE FROM JOINING
 ANY OTHER COOPERATIVE AGREEMENT;
   3. NO COOPERATIVE AGREEMENT SHALL PROHIBIT ANY RETAILER FROM ADVERTIS-
 ING OR SELLING ANY PRODUCT AT ANY OTHERWISE LAWFUL PRICE;
   4. ANY LICENSEE MAY WITHDRAW FROM A COOPERATIVE AGREEMENT WITHIN THIR-
 TY DAYS OF FORMING SUCH COOPERATIVE BY WRITTEN NOTICE TO  THE  REMAINING
 PARTICIPATING  MEMBERS  OF  SUCH  COOPERATIVE  AND NO PENALTIES SHALL BE
 CHARGED FOR SUCH WITHDRAWAL;
   5. ALL PURCHASES ON CREDIT THROUGH OR BY COOPERATIVE  AGREEMENT  SHALL
 BE  REDUCED  TO  WRITING,  SIGNED  BY THE WHOLESALER AND EACH INDIVIDUAL
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD01431-01-5

2025-A7639A (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S370
Current Committee:
Assembly Economic Development
Law Section:
Alcoholic Beverage Control Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §105, ABC L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2021-2022: A10306, S8964
2023-2024: A353, A9060, S3460

2025-A7639A (ACTIVE) - Summary

Allows licensees to sell wine or liquor at retail for consumption off the premises to certain other licensees; allows such other licensees to resell such wine or liquor for consumption off the premises.

2025-A7639A (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                  7639--A
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                               April 4, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by M. of A. STIRPE -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on  Economic  Development  -- recommitted to the Committee on Economic
   Development in accordance with Assembly Rule 3, sec.  2  --  committee
   discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted
   to said committee

 AN  ACT  to  amend  the  alcoholic  beverage control law, in relation to
   allowing licensees to sell wine or liquor at  retail  for  consumption
   off  the  premises  to other licensees, and allowing such licensees to
   purchase and resell wine or liquor at retail for consumption  off  the
   premises
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Section 105  of  the  alcoholic  beverage  control  law  is
 amended by adding a new subdivision 2-a to read as follows:
   2-A.  (A) NOTWITHSTANDING ANY PROVISION OF THIS CHAPTER TO THE CONTRA-
 RY:
   (I) A LICENSEE ISSUED UNDER SECTION SIXTY-THREE OF THIS CHAPTER  SHALL
 BE  AUTHORIZED  TO  PURCHASE  WINE  OR  LIQUOR FROM, AND TO SELL WINE OR
 LIQUOR TO, ANY OTHER LICENSEE ISSUED UNDER SECTION SIXTY-THREE  OF  THIS
 CHAPTER,  AND MAY RESELL ANY WINE OR LIQUOR SO PURCHASED FOR CONSUMPTION
 OFF THE PREMISES.
   (II) A LICENSEE ISSUED UNDER SECTION SIXTY-THREE OF THIS CHAPTER SHALL
 BE AUTHORIZED TO PURCHASE WINE FROM, AND TO SELL  WINE  TO,  A  LICENSEE
 ISSUED  UNDER  SECTION  SEVENTY-NINE OF THIS CHAPTER, AND MAY RESELL ANY
 WINE SO PURCHASED FOR CONSUMPTION OFF THE PREMISES.
   (III) A LICENSEE ISSUED UNDER SECTION  SEVENTY-NINE  OF  THIS  CHAPTER
 SHALL  BE  AUTHORIZED TO PURCHASE WINE FROM, AND SELL WINE TO, ANY OTHER
 LICENSEE ISSUED UNDER SECTION SEVENTY-NINE  OR  SECTION  SIXTY-THREE  OF
 THIS  CHAPTER,  AND MAY RESELL ANY WINE SO PURCHASED FOR CONSUMPTION OFF
 THE PREMISES.
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD01431-03-6
 A. 7639--A                          2

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