A05901 Summary:

BILL NOA05901
 
SAME ASSAME AS S02869
 
SPONSORBarron
 
COSPNSRGunther, Mosley, Ortiz, Walker, Cook, Davila, Jaffee, Perry, Arroyo, Galef, Peoples-Stokes, Hooper
 
MLTSPNSRHevesi, Saladino, Steck
 
Add S397-b, Gen Bus L
 
Prohibits the erection or maintenance of billboards advertising alcoholic beverages within 1000 feet of schools and playgrounds; defines billboards.
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A05901 Actions:

BILL NOA05901
 
03/06/2015referred to consumer affairs and protection
01/06/2016referred to consumer affairs and protection
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A05901 Memo:

NEW YORK STATE ASSEMBLY
MEMORANDUM IN SUPPORT OF LEGISLATION
submitted in accordance with Assembly Rule III, Sec 1(f)
 
BILL NUMBER: A5901
 
SPONSOR: Barron
  TITLE OF BILL: An act to amend the general business law, in relation to billboards advertising alcoholic beverages   PURPOSE OR GENERAL IDEA OF BILL: Prohibits the erection or maintenance of billboards advertising alcohol- ic beverages within 1,000 feet of schools or playgrounds.   SUMMARY OF SPECIFIC 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.   PRIOR LEGISLATIVE HISTORY: 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 1 year after it shall have become a law.
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A05901 Text:



 
                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                          5901
 
                               2015-2016 Regular Sessions
 
                   IN ASSEMBLY
 
                                      March 6, 2015
                                       ___________
 
        Introduced by M. of A. BARRON -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Consumer Affairs and 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:
 
     1    Section  1.    The  general  business  law  is amended by adding a new
     2  section 397-b to read as follows:
     3    § 397-b.   Billboards advertising alcoholic  beverages.  No  billboard
     4  advertising any alcoholic beverage shall be erected or maintained within
     5  one  thousand  feet of (1) any public or private elementary or secondary
     6  school or (2) any playground adjacent to or within one thousand feet  of
     7  any  private  or  public elementary or secondary school. For purposes of
     8  this section, the term "billboard" shall include  any  billboard,  sign,
     9  notice,  poster,  display or other stationary device intended to attract
    10  or which does attract the attention of operators of  motor  vehicles  or
    11  pedestrians.
    12    §  2.  This  act shall take effect one year after the date on which it
    13  shall have become a law.
 
 
 
 
 
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD03643-01-5
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