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                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                          1263
 
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
 
                    IN SENATE
 
                                    January 11, 2019
                                       ___________
 
        Introduced  by  Sen. METZGER -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules
 
        AN ACT to amend the tax law and the alcoholic beverage control  law,  in
          relation to mead
 
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. Subdivision 6 of section 420 of the tax law, as amended  by
     2  chapter 29 of the laws of 1939, is amended to read as follows:
     3    6.  "Wines"  mean  and include wine (both still and sparkling and when
     4  fortified by the addition of alcohol or spirits),  mead  as  defined  in
     5  section  three  of  the  alcoholic  beverage  control  law,  fruit juice
     6  containing one-half of one per centum or more of alcohol by  volume  and
     7  all  other  beverages containing alcohol manufactured or produced by the
     8  fermentation of the natural sugar contents of fruits or  other  agricul-
     9  tural products containing sugar, provided the foregoing contain not more
    10  than  twenty-four per centum of alcohol by volume, but shall not mean or
    11  include cider containing three and two-tenths per centum,  or  less,  of
    12  alcohol by volume.
    13    §  2.  Paragraph 33 of subdivision (a) of section 1115 of the tax law,
    14  as amended by chapter 418 of the laws of 2017, is  amended  to  read  as
    15  follows:
    16    (33)  Wine or wine product, beer or beer product, cider or cider prod-
    17  uct, liquor or liquor product, mead or mead product, and the kegs, cans,
    18  bottles, growlers, corks, caps, and labels used to package such alcohol-
    19  ic product, furnished by the official agent of a  farm  winery,  winery,
    20  brewery,  farm  brewery,  cider  producer, farm cidery, distillery, farm
    21  distillery, mead producer, farm meadery, wholesaler, or  importer  at  a
    22  [wine,  beer, cider or liquor] tasting held in accordance with the alco-
    23  holic beverage control law to a customer  or  prospective  customer  who
    24  consumes such wine, beer, cider [or], liquor or mead at such tasting.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD07021-01-9
        S. 1263                             2
 
     1    §  3.  Subdivision 4 of section 61-a of the alcoholic beverage control
     2  law, as added by chapter 297 of the laws of 2016, is amended to read  as
     3  follows:
     4    4.  A  combined farm manufacturer's license may combine two or more of
     5  the following licenses: farm meadery; farm brewery; micro-brewery;  farm
     6  cidery; farm winery; micro-distillery; micro-rectifier; and farm distil-
     7  lery.  Provided, however, that the licensed premises for a combined farm
     8  manufacturer's  license  that  includes  a  farm  winery license must be
     9  located on a farm.
    10    § 4. This act shall take effect on the  same  date  and  in  the  same
    11  manner as chapter 522 of the laws of 2018 takes effect.