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A 7040: Authorizes private membership establishments to have certain licenses for sale of alcohol for consumption on premises.
What A 7040 does, verified August 23, 2025
The bill aims to establish a new type of license for for-profit clubs, which can operate solely for recreational, social, patriotic, political, benevolent, communal, corporate dining, or athletic purposes. To obtain this license, an applicant must submit an application to the state liquor authority, along with a fee of $20,000 annually. The license will allow the holder to sell liquor, wine, beer, cider, mead, and/or braggot exclusively to members in good standing and their guests under the club's by-laws. The license will also permit the holder to operate corporate dining spaces for their employees and clients, without requiring them to meet member requirements. The authority will consider various factors when determining whether to grant a license, including the number of licenses in the area, the applicant's compliance with state and local regulations, and the potential impact on tra…
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Last action: signed chap.342 (2025-08-22)Alert me
Quick answers about A 7040
- What is the current status of A 7040?
- As of August 23, 2025, A 7040 is recorded as "Chaptered/Signed": it has been signed by the Governor and chaptered into law. The last recorded action, on August 22, 2025, was "signed chap.342".
- Did A 7040 pass?
- Yes. A 7040 passed both houses and was signed into law (last action August 22, 2025). New York laws take effect on the date written into the bill, often immediately on signing or a set number of days afterward.
- Who wrote A 7040, and where is it now?
- A 7040 was authored by Asm. Al Stirpe with 2 coauthors.
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| Aug. 22, 2025 | signed chap.342 |
| Aug. 15, 2025 | delivered to governor |
| Jun. 09, 2025 | RETURNED TO ASSEMBLY |
| Jun. 09, 2025 | PASSED SENATE |
| Jun. 09, 2025 | 3RD READING CAL.1676 |
Latest bill textIntroduced version, March 20, 2025 · 490 words
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 7040 2025-2026 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY March 20, 2025 ___________ Introduced by 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 authorizing private membership establishments to have certain licenses for sale of alcohol The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Section 3 of the alcoholic beverage control law is amended 2 by adding a new subdivision 39 to read as follows: 3 39. "Private membership establishment" shall mean an association oper- 4 ated by an individual, corporation, partnership, company, or any other 5 for-profit entity which is the owner, lessee, or occupant of a premises 6 used exclusively for such association's purposes, and which is operated 7 solely for a recreational, social, communal workspace or athletic 8 purposes. A "member" of a private membership establishment shall mean a 9 person who, whether a charter member or admitted in agreement with the 10 by-laws of such private membership establishment, has become a bona fide 11 member thereof, who maintains the private membership by the payment of 12 their annual dues in a bona fide manner in accordance with the by-laws 13 and whose name and address is entered on such private membership estab- 14 lishment's list of members. A private membership establishment must have 15 one hundred or more members and shall be subject to the provisions of 16 section one hundred ten of this chapter. Private membership establish- 17 ments may have ticketed events for their members or members' guests, but 18 a business or facility that sells tickets to the general public shall 19 not be considered a private membership establishment. 20 § 2. Subdivision 5 of section 64 of the alcoholic beverage control 21 law, as amended by chapter 258 of the laws of 1976, is amended to read 22 as follows: 23 5. No retail license under this section shall be granted except for 24 such premises as are being conducted as a bona fide hotel provided that EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD00724-01-5A. 7040 2 1 a restaurant is operated in such premises, restaurant, catering estab- 2 lishment, club, private membership establishment, railroad car, vessel 3 or aircraft being operated on regularly scheduled flights by a United 4 States certificated airline. 5 § 3. Subdivision 8 of section 106 of the alcoholic beverage control 6 law is amended to read as follows: 7 8. A private membership establishment, club or a luncheon club 8 licensed to sell alcoholic beverages for on-premises consumption shall 9 be permitted to sell such beverages only to its members and to their 10 guests accompanying them. 11 § 4. This act shall take effect immediately.
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