NY State Senate Bill 2025-S6142

Senate Bill S6142

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Prohibits the erection or maintenance of billboards advertising alcoholic beverages within 1000 feet of schools and playgrounds

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Current Bill Status - In Senate Committee Consumer Protection Committee

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Mar 05, 2025	referred to consumer protection

2025-S6142 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:: Senate Consumer Protection
Law Section:: General Business Law
Laws Affected:: Add §397-c, Gen Bus L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:: 2009-2010: S2958
2011-2012: S3637
2013-2014: S2727, S6269
2015-2016: S2869
2017-2018: S2713
2019-2020: S4999
2021-2022: S5464
2023-2024: S7143

2025-S6142 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Prohibits the erection or maintenance of billboards advertising alcoholic beverages within 1000 feet of schools and playgrounds; defines billboards.

2025-S6142 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

                                 
BILL NUMBER: S6142

SPONSOR: PARKER
 
TITLE OF BILL:

An act to amend the general business law, in relation to billboards
advertising alcoholic beverages

 
PURPOSE:

Prohibits the erection or maintenance of billboards advertising alcohol-
ic beverages within 1,000 feet of schools or playgrounds.

 
SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS:

Section 1: amends the general business law by adding a new section 397-b
to restrict billboard advertisements of alcoholic beverages from being
within 1,000 feet of any school or any playground adjacent to a school.

 
JUSTIFICATION:

Increasingly our school's curriculum is focusing our children's atten-
tion on the effects of alcohol, drugs, and tobacco. We must be support-
ive of our school's efforts in teaching our children to abstain from
controlled or illegal substances. The Drug Free School Zone must be
expanded to restrict billboard advertisements of controlled substances
to a minimum of 1,000 feet within a school or an adjacent playground. If
we allow these billboard advertisements to be in such close proximity to
our school, we are being inconsistent in our message.

As a result, of the tobacco settlement, advertisement of tobacco
products is prohibited near schools. However, there is still a need to
restrict the advertisement of alcoholic beverages near a school.

 
LEGISLATIVE HISTORY:

2023-24: S7143 Referred to Consumer Protection

2021-22: S.5464 - Referred to Consumer Protection

2019-20: S.4999 - Referred to Consumer Protection

2017-18: S.2713 - Referred to Consumer Protection

S.2869 (2016) - Referred to Consumer Protection

S.2869(2015)- Referred to Consumer Protection

S.6269(2014)- Referred to Consumer Protection

S.2727(2013)- Referred to Consumer Protection

S.3637(2012)- Referred to Consumer Protection

S.2958(2009)- Reported and Committed to Finance

 
FISCAL IMPLICATIONS:

None.
 
EFFECTIVE DATE:
This act shall take effect one year after the date on which it shall
have become a law.

2025-S6142 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   6142
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                               March 5, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen.  PARKER -- 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  billboards
   advertising alcoholic beverages
 
   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 397-c to read as follows:
   §  397-C.    BILLBOARDS  ADVERTISING ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES. NO BILLBOARD
 ADVERTISING ANY ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGE SHALL BE ERECTED OR MAINTAINED WITHIN
 ONE THOUSAND FEET OF (1) ANY PUBLIC OR PRIVATE ELEMENTARY  OR  SECONDARY
 SCHOOL  OR (2) ANY PLAYGROUND ADJACENT TO OR WITHIN ONE THOUSAND FEET OF
 ANY PRIVATE OR PUBLIC ELEMENTARY OR SECONDARY SCHOOL.  FOR  PURPOSES  OF
 THIS  SECTION,  THE  TERM "BILLBOARD" SHALL INCLUDE ANY BILLBOARD, SIGN,
 NOTICE, POSTER, DISPLAY OR OTHER STATIONARY DEVICE INTENDED  TO  ATTRACT
 OR  WHICH  DOES  ATTRACT THE ATTENTION OF OPERATORS OF MOTOR VEHICLES OR
 PEDESTRIANS.
   § 2. This act shall take effect one year after the date  on  which  it
 shall have become a law.
 
 
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD10563-01-5

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