Senate Bill S9990

                             
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                                   9990
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                              April 21, 2026
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 Introduced  by  Sen. SKOUFIS -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Investigations and Govern-
   ment Operations
 
 AN ACT to amend the alcoholic  beverage  control  law,  in  relation  to
   authorizing  licensees  to remain open for extended hours of operation
   statewide for a specific period of time; and providing for the  repeal
   of such provisions upon expiration thereof
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Subdivision 5 of section  106  of  the  alcoholic  beverage
 control law, as amended by chapter 83 of the laws of 1995, paragraph (a)
 as  amended by chapter 160 of the laws of 2024, paragraph (b) as amended
 and paragraph (c) as added by section 1 of part FF of chapter 55 of  the
 laws of 2020, is amended to read as follows:
   5.  No  alcoholic  beverages  shall be sold, offered for sale or given
 away upon any premises licensed to sell alcoholic  beverages  at  retail
 for on-premises consumption, during the following hours:
   (a)  Except  as  provided  in  paragraph  (c)  of this subdivision, on
 Sunday, from four ante meridiem to ten o'clock a.m., except pursuant  to
 a  permit  issued  under  section  ninety-nine-h  or subdivision five of
 section ninety-seven of this chapter.
   (b) Except as provided in paragraph (c) of this  subdivision,  on  any
 other day between four ante meridiem and eight ante meridiem.
   (c)  On any day between three ante meridian and six ante meridian, for
 a premises located within an international airport owned or operated  by
 the  Port  Authority  of New York and New Jersey. The provisions of this
 paragraph shall not be subject to change pursuant to subdivision  eleven
 of section seventeen of this chapter.
   Unless  otherwise  approved  by  the authority pursuant to subdivision
 eleven of section seventeen of this chapter, where  any  rule  has  been
 adopted  in  a county on or before April first, nineteen hundred ninety-
 five, further restricting the hours of  sale  for  alcoholic  beverages,
 such restricted hours shall be the hours, during which the sale of alco-
 holic  beverages  at  retail  for  on-premises  consumption shall not be
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
              

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 S. 9990                             2
 
 permitted within such county; PROVIDED, HOWEVER,  THAT  FOR  THE  PERIOD
 COMMENCING  ON JUNE ELEVENTH, TWO THOUSAND TWENTY-SIX AND ENDING ON JULY
 TWENTIETH, TWO THOUSAND TWENTY-SIX, ANY ON-PREMISES CONSUMPTION LICENSEE
 MAY  SELL  OR  OFFER FOR SALE ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE
 PROVISIONS OF PARAGRAPHS (A) AND (B) OF THIS SUBDIVISION NOTWITHSTANDING
 THE FACT THAT A COUNTY MAY  HAVE  PREVIOUSLY  IMPOSED  MORE  RESTRICTIVE
 HOURS  OF  OPERATION WITHIN THE COUNTY OR THE AUTHORITY MAY HAVE IMPOSED
 MORE RESTRICTIVE HOURS AS A CONDITION OF A LICENSE.
   Nor shall any person be permitted to consume any  alcoholic  beverages
 upon  any  such premises later than one-half hour after the start of the
 prohibited hours of sale provided for in this section.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately and shall  expire  and  be
 deemed repealed July 21, 2026.