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Senate Bill S6248

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Increases the capacity needed to be considered a bottle club

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

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2025-S6248 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A8578
Current Committee:
Senate Commerce, Economic Development And Small Business
Law Section:
Alcoholic Beverage Control Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §64-b, ABC L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2021-2022: S8991
2023-2024: S3485, A6769

2025-S6248 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Increases the capacity needed to be considered a bottle club from twenty persons to one hundred persons.

2025-S6248 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2025-S6248 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   6248
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                               March 7, 2025
                                ___________
 
 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
   increasing the capacity needed to be considered a bottle club

   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  Subdivision  1  of section 64-b of the alcoholic beverage
 control law, as amended by chapter 1043 of the laws of 1971, is  amended
 to read as follows:
   1.  It  shall  be  unlawful for any person, partnership or corporation
 operating a place for profit or pecuniary gain, with a capacity for  the
 assemblage of [twenty] ONE HUNDRED or more persons to permit a person or
 persons  to  come  to the place of assembly for the purpose of consuming
 alcoholic beverages on said  premises,  which  alcoholic  beverages  are
 either  provided  by  the operator of the place of assembly, [his] THEIR
 agents, servants or employees, or are brought onto said premises by  the
 person  or  persons  assembling  at  such  place,  unless an appropriate
 license has first been obtained from the state liquor authority  by  the
 operator  of  said  place  of assembly. Nothing in this section shall be
 construed as affecting the definition of place of assembly in this chap-
 ter or any other law.    Nothing  contained  herein  shall  prohibit  or
 restrict the leasing or use of such place of assemblage as defined here-
 in by any organization or club enumerated in subdivision seven hereof.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD10773-01-5

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