A11437: Requires wholesale beer licensees to only need to pay a one time additional license fee to sell…

STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 11437 IN ASSEMBLY May 15, 2026 ___________ Introduced by COMMITTEE ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. Stirpe) -- read once and referred to the Committee on Economic Development AN ACT to amend the alcoholic beverage control law, in relation to license fees required to be paid by wholesale beer licensees to sell cider The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Section 58-a of the alcoholic beverage control law, as 2 amended by chapter 204 of the laws of 1963, is amended to read as 3 follows: 4 § 58-a. Sale of cider by wholesale beer licensees. A wholesale beer 5 licensee, as defined under this chapter shall, upon the payment of an 6 additional [ annual ] license fee of [ one hundred twenty-five ] three 7 hundred seventy-five dollars, be permitted to sell cider as defined 8 under this chapter at wholesale from duly licensed premises, to duly 9 licensed beer, wine and liquor retailers and to other holders of 10 licenses under this chapter, in bottles, barrels or casks, and to sell 11 and deliver cider to persons outside the state pursuant to the laws of 12 the place of such delivery. The term of such license shall run concur- 13 rently with the term of the wholesale license established as set forth 14 in section fifty-seven-a of this chapter. The provisions of section 15 fifty-seven of this chapter shall apply to licenses issued hereunder to 16 sell cider at wholesale pursuant to the provisions of this section. 17 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD15749-01-6