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Senate Bill S3216

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Requires restaurants and persons authorized to sell alcoholic beverages to have tangible menus available upon request

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2025-S3216 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A2412
Current Committee:
Senate Consumer Protection
Law Section:
General Business Law
Laws Affected:
Add §396-uu, Gen Bus L
Versions Introduced in 2023-2024 Legislative Session:
S6597, A4064

2025-S3216 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires restaurants and persons authorized to sell alcoholic beverages to have tangible menus available upon request.

2025-S3216 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2025-S3216 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   3216
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             January 24, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by Sen. KAVANAGH -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Consumer Protection
 
 AN ACT to amend the general  business  law,  in  relation  to  requiring
   restaurants and persons authorized to sell alcoholic beverages to have
   tangible menus available upon request

   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. The general business law is amended by adding a new section
 396-uu to read as follows:
   § 396-UU. TANGIBLE MENUS. ANY  RESTAURANT  OR  LICENSEE  POSSESSING  A
 RETAIL  LICENSE FOR ON-PREMISES CONSUMPTION SUBJECT TO THE PROVISIONS OF
 SECTION ONE HUNDRED SIX OF THE ALCOHOLIC  BEVERAGE  CONTROL  LAW  SHALL,
 UPON  THE  REQUEST  OF  A CUSTOMER, MAKE AVAILABLE A PRINTED OR TANGIBLE
 MENU COMMUNICATING ESSENTIAL INFORMATION ABOUT THE  BEVERAGES  AND  FOOD
 AVAILABLE  FOR  SALE  BY  SUCH RESTAURANT OR LICENSEE.   A TANGIBLE MENU
 SHALL INCLUDE LEGIBLE SIGNAGE POSTED ON A WALL OR IN ANOTHER CONSPICUOUS
 LOCATION.   UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES SHALL  THE  ONLY  MENU  AVAILABLE  BE
 ACCESSIBLE EXCLUSIVELY THROUGH DIGITAL OR ONLINE MEANS. FOR THE PURPOSES
 OF  THIS  SECTION,  THE TERMS "RESTAURANT" AND "LICENSEE" SHALL HAVE THE
 SAME MEANING AS THOSE TERMS ARE DEFINED IN SECTION THREE OF THE ALCOHOL-
 IC BEVERAGE CONTROL LAW.
   § 2. This act shall take effect on the thirtieth day  after  it  shall
 have become a law.
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD00918-01-5

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