STATE OF NEW YORK
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5766
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
February 19, 2019
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Introduced by M. of A. WOERNER -- read once and referred to the Commit-
tee on Economic Development
AN ACT to amend the alcoholic beverage control law, in relation to the
definition of New York state labelled beer
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Paragraphs (b) and (c) of subdivision 20-d of section 3 of
2 the alcoholic beverage control law, as added by chapter 108 of the laws
3 of 2012, are amended to read as follows:
4 (b) from January first, two thousand nineteen until December thirty-
5 first, two thousand twenty-three, beer made with no less than sixty
6 percent, by weight, of its hops grown in New York state and no less than
7 sixty percent, by weight, of all of its other ingredients, excluding
8 water, grown and processed in New York state; and
9 (c) from January first, two thousand twenty-four and thereafter, beer
10 made with no less than ninety percent, by weight, of its hops grown in
11 New York state and no less than ninety percent, by weight, of all of its
12 other ingredients, excluding water, grown and processed in New York
13 state.
14 § 2. 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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