Includes within the definition of "wine product", a beverage containing wine which has undergone an alcohol reduction process including but not limited to nanofiltration, reverse osmosis, osmotic distillation, vacuum distillation, spinning cone column, or through a multi-stage membrane-based system.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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6229
2023-2024 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
April 5, 2023
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Introduced by Sen. HELMING -- 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 wine
products
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 36-a of section 3 of the alcoholic beverage
2 control law, as amended by chapter 135 of the laws of 1985, is amended
3 to read as follows:
4 36-a. "Wine product" means a beverage containing wine to which is
5 added concentrated or unconcentrated juice, flavoring material, water,
6 citric acid, sugar and carbon dioxide and containing not more than six
7 per centum alcohol by volume, to which nothing other than such wine has
8 been added to increase the alcoholic content of such beverage; or a
9 beverage containing wine which has undergone an alcohol reduction proc-
10 ess including but not limited to nanofiltration, reverse osmosis, osmot-
11 ic distillation, vacuum distillation, spinning cone column, or through a
12 multi-stage membrane-based system.
13 § 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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