New York State Assembly

Bill No.:  

 
•  Summary 
 
•  Actions 
 
•  Committee Votes 
 
•  Floor Votes 
 
•  Memo 
 
•  Text 
 
•  LFIN 
 
•  Chamber Video/Transcript 

---

S08966 Summary:

BILL NO	S08966
SAME AS	SAME AS A10376
SPONSOR	SKOUFIS
COSPNSR
MLTSPNSR
Rpld Art 9, add 132, ABC L
Ends the local option of towns and cities to prohibit the sale of alcohol.

Go to top    

---

S08966 Actions:

BILL NO	S08966
05/02/2022	REFERRED TO INVESTIGATIONS AND GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS
05/09/2022	1ST REPORT CAL.1125
05/10/2022	2ND REPORT CAL.
05/11/2022	ADVANCED TO THIRD READING
06/03/2022	COMMITTED TO RULES

Go to top

---

S08966 Committee Votes:

Go to top

---

S08966 Floor Votes:

Go to top

---

S08966 Text:

 
                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                          8966
 
                    IN SENATE
 
                                       May 2, 2022
                                       ___________
 
        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
          ending  the  local  option of towns and cities to prohibit the sale of
          alcohol; and to repeal certain provisions of such law relating thereto

          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
 
     1    Section  1.  The alcoholic beverage control law is amended by adding a
     2  new section 132 to read as follows:
     3    § 132. Local options on the sale of alcohol prohibited.  Within  every
     4  municipality  which  had  a  referendum  to prohibit the sale of alcohol
     5  under the former article nine of this chapter the sale of alcohol  shall
     6  be  lawful.  No  municipality  shall  enact any local law, ordinance, or
     7  resolution which prohibits the sale of alcohol within  the  entirety  of
     8  such municipality.
     9    § 2.  Article 9 of the alcoholic beverage control law is REPEALED.
    10    §  3.  This  act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
    11  have become a law.
 
 
 
 
 

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD15540-02-2

Go to top