S 8359 NY
Creates a special on-premises license for certain properties
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Summary
This bill creates a new special on-premises liquor license in New York for facilities that meet specific criteria. The license authorizes the sale and service of liquor, wine, beer, and cider for on-premises consumption for 24 hours a day. To be eligible for this license, a property must be located in a designated industrial or economic zoning district, occupy at least 20,000 square feet of floor area, and be situated at least 500 feet from any residential building. The license is subject to all provisions of New York's Alcoholic Beverage Control Law and any additional rules the liquor authority deems necessary. The bill takes effect 90 days after enactment.
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Creates a special on-premises license for properties which are located within a designated industrial or economic zoning district, occupy not less than twenty thousand square feet of floor area, and are located at least 500 feet from a residential building.
Sponsor (1)
- James Skoufis Democratic · primary
Action history (6)
- Jun 5, 2025 REFERRED TO RULES · upper
- Jan 7, 2026 REFERRED TO INVESTIGATIONS AND GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS · upper
- Mar 31, 2026 AMEND AND RECOMMIT TO INVESTIGATIONS AND GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS · upper
- Mar 31, 2026 PRINT NUMBER 8359A · upper
- May 19, 2026 AMEND AND RECOMMIT TO INVESTIGATIONS AND GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS · upper
- May 19, 2026 PRINT NUMBER 8359B · upper
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  SPONSOR SKOUFIS   COSPNSR   MLTSPNSR   Add §97-e, ABC L   Creates a special on-premises license for properties which are located within a designated industrial or economic zoning district, occupy not less than twenty thousand square feet of floor area, and are located at least 500 feet from a residential building.
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STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________
8359--B
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
June 5, 2025 ___________
Introduced by Sen. SKOUFIS -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules -- recommitted to the Committee on Investigations and Government Operations in accord- ance with Senate Rule 6, sec. 8 -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee
AN ACT to amend the alcoholic beverage control law, in relation to creating a special on-premises license for certain properties
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. The alcoholic beverage control law is amended by adding a 2 new section 97-e to read as follows: 3 § 97-e. Twenty-four hour license to sell liquor, wine, beer, and cider 4 at retail for consumption on the premises. 1. Notwithstanding any 5 provisions of law to the contrary, the liquor authority may issue a 6 twenty-four hour retail liquor, wine, beer, and cider license for 7 on-premises consumption to a facility which: 8 (a) is located within a designated industrial or economic zoning 9 district; 10 (b) occupies not less than twenty thousand square feet of floor area; 11 and 12 (c) is located at least five hundred feet from a residential building. 13 2. Any license issued pursuant to this section shall be subject to all 14 provisions of this chapter not inconsistent with subdivision one of this 15 section and may be subjected to such rules by the liquor authority as it 16 deems necessary and such rules as are in conformity with the provisions 17 of subdivision one of this section. 18 § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall 19 have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD13296-05-6
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