STATE OF NEW YORK
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8741
IN SENATE
March 6, 2024
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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
removing the requirement of the state liquor authority to have not
more than two members of the authority belong to the same political
party
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Section 11 of the alcoholic beverage control law, as
2 amended by section 2 of part E of chapter 57 of the laws of 2011, is
3 amended to read as follows:
4 § 11. Appointment of authority. The members of the authority shall be
5 appointed by the governor by and with the advice and consent of the
6 senate. [Not more than two members of the authority shall belong to the
7 same political party.] The chairman of the state alcoholic beverage
8 control board heretofore appointed and designated by the governor and
9 the remaining members of such board heretofore appointed by the governor
10 shall continue to serve as chairman and members of the authority until
11 the expiration of the respective terms for which they were appointed.
12 Upon the expiration of such respective terms the successors of such
13 chairman and members shall be appointed to serve for a term of three
14 years each and until their successors have been appointed and qualified.
15 The commissioners, other than the chairman shall, when performing the
16 work of the authority, be compensated at a rate of two hundred sixty
17 dollars per day, together with an allowance for actual and necessary
18 expenses incurred in the discharge of their duties. The chairman shall
19 receive an annual salary established in section one hundred sixty-nine
20 of the executive law.
21 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD14790-01-4
