STATE OF NEW YORK
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6531
IN SENATE
January 22, 2016
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Introduced by Sen. BOYLE -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Alcoholism and Drug Abuse
AN ACT to amend the alcoholic beverage control law, in relation to the
consumption of alcohol by students under the age of twenty-one who are
enrolled in certain courses of study
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 5 of section 65 of the alcoholic beverage
2 control law, as amended by chapter 107 of the laws of 1986, is amended
3 to read as follows:
4 5. The provisions of subdivision one of this section shall not apply
5 to a person who gives or causes to be given any such alcoholic beverage
6 to a person under the age of twenty-one years, who is a student in a
7 curriculum licensed or registered by the state education department and
8 is required to taste or imbibe alcoholic beverages in courses which are
9 part of the required curriculum, provided such alcoholic beverages are
10 used only for instructional purposes during [classes] on-campus or off-
11 campus courses conducted pursuant to such curriculum.
12 § 2. Paragraph (a) of subdivision 2 of section 65-c of the alcoholic
13 beverage control law, as added by chapter 592 of the laws of 1989, is
14 amended to read as follows:
15 (a) to a person who is a student in a curriculum licensed or regis-
16 tered by the state education department and the student is required to
17 taste or imbibe alcoholic beverages in on-campus or off-campus courses
18 which are a part of the required curriculum, provided such alcoholic
19 beverages are used only for instructional purposes during class
20 conducted pursuant to such curriculum; or
21 § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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