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A 7578: Provides for a license to sell liquor at retail for consumption on certain premises.

New York · Assembly · 2025–2026 Legislative Session · last verified September 28, 2025

What A 7578 does, verified September 28, 2025

The proposed legislation aims to amend the Alcoholic Beverage Control Law to provide for a license to sell liquor at retail for consumption on certain premises. A new retail license will be issued for premises located within two hundred feet of a school, church, synagogue, or other place of worship, as long as the premises sell food or beverages for on-premises consumption. The license will be granted for a specific location in the city of Middletown, Orange County, where a plot of land, bounded by certain streets and buildings, is located. The proposed law will take effect immediately.

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Last action: signed chap.344 (2025-08-22)Alert me
Quick answers about A 7578
What is the current status of A 7578?
As of September 28, 2025, A 7578 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.344".
Did A 7578 pass?
Yes. A 7578 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 7578, and where is it now?
A 7578 was authored by Asm. Paula Elaine Kay.
Recent actions15 total · showing 5
Aug. 22, 2025signed chap.344
Aug. 15, 2025delivered to governor
Jun. 04, 2025RETURNED TO ASSEMBLY
Jun. 04, 2025PASSED SENATE
Jun. 04, 20253RD READING CAL.1274
Full action history, 10 earlier actionsConnect Plus
Latest bill textIntroduced version, April 1, 2025 · 485 words
  
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 7578 2025-2026 Regular Sessions  IN ASSEMBLY April 1, 2025 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. KAY -- read once and referred to the Committee on Economic Development AN ACT to amend the alcoholic beverage control law, in relation to providing for a license to sell liquor at retail for consumption on certain premises The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Subdivision 7 of section 64 of the alcoholic beverage 2 control law is amended by adding a new paragraph (e-17) to read as 3 follows: 4 (e-17) Notwithstanding the provisions of paragraph (a) of this subdi- 5 vision, the authority may issue a retail license for on-premises 6 consumption for a premises which shall be located within two hundred 7 feet of a building occupied as a school, church, synagogue or other 8 place of worship, provided such premises constitute a premises for the 9 sale of food or beverages at retail for consumption on the premises 10 located wholly within the boundaries of the county of Orange in the city 11 of Middletown, bounded and described as follows: 12 ALL that certain plot, piece or parcel of land, with the buildings and 13 improvements thereon erected, situate, lying and being in the City of 14 Middletown, County of Orange and State of New York, being shown and 15 designated as Lot No. 10 on a certain map entitled, "Lands of Frank M. 16 Stratton," which map was filed on January 2, 1896 in the Orange County 17 Clerk's Office as Filed Map No. 222, bounded and described as follows: 18 BEGINNING at a point in the westerly line of North Street at the 19 southeasterly corner of lands of 42 North Street LLC (Liber 14773 Page 20 760) and also being the northeasterly most corner of the herein 21 described parcel; 22 THENCE from the said point or place of beginning and following along 23 the westerly line of North Street, South 21 degrees 15 minutes 00 24 seconds West, 23.00 feet to a point; EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD10683-01-5 

 A. 7578 2 1 THENCE along the line of lands of Rehoboth Christian Center, Inc. 2 (Liber 4572 Page 146) and along a common party wall, North 68 degrees 45 3 minutes 00 seconds West, 100.25 feet to a point; 4 THENCE along an Alley Way, North 20 degrees 45 minutes 06 seconds 5 East, 23.00 feet to point; 6 THENCE along the lands of said 42 North Street LLC and along a common 7 party wall, South 68 degrees 45 minutes 00 seconds East, 100.45 feet to 8 the point or place of BEGINNING. 9 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. 

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