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Senate Bill S10172

2025-2026 Legislative Session

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

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Current Bill Status - In Senate Committee Commerce, Economic Development And Small Business Committee

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2025-S10172 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Commerce, Economic Development And Small Business
Law Section:
Alcoholic Beverage Control Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §58-a, ABC L

2025-S10172 (ACTIVE) - Summary

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

2025-S10172 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   10172
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                                May 4, 2026
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen. SKOUFIS -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Commerce, Economic  Devel-
   opment and Small Business
 
 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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