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Assembly Bill A7870

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Enacts "the bodega act of 2025"

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2025-A7870 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Codes
Law Section:
Executive Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §837-a, Exec L

2025-A7870 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Enacts "the bodega act"; requires the division of criminal justice services to establish a program to provide grants to bodegas, convenience stores and food marts for the purpose of preventing crimes against such businesses including for the installation of panic buttons and surveillance equipment.

2025-A7870 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   7870
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                              April 11, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by M. of A. ALVAREZ -- read once and referred to the Commit-
   tee on Codes
 
 AN ACT to amend the executive law, in relation to enacting  "the  bodega
   act of 2025"
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   Section 1. Short title. This act shall be known and may  be  cited  as
 "the bodega act of 2025".
   §  2.  Section  837-a  of the executive law is amended by adding a new
 subdivision 10 to read as follows:
   10. ESTABLISH A PROGRAM TO  PROVIDE  GRANTS  TO  BUSINESSES  PRIMARILY
 ENGAGED  IN  RETAILING  A  LIMITED  LINE OF GROCERIES, INCLUDING BUT NOT
 LIMITED TO BODEGAS, CONVENIENCE STORES OR FOOD MARTS, EXCEPT THOSE OPER-
 ATING FUEL PUMPS, FOR THE PURPOSE  OF  PREVENTING  CRIMES  AGAINST  SUCH
 BUSINESSES  INCLUDING FOR THE INSTALLATION OF PANIC BUTTONS AND SURVEIL-
 LANCE EQUIPMENT.
   § 3. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
 it shall have become a law.
 
 
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD11235-01-5

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