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A 7579: 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 7579 does, verified September 28, 2025

The bill proposes to amend the Alcoholic Beverage Control Law to allow for a license to sell liquor at retail for consumption on certain premises. The license will be issued for premises located within two hundred feet of a building occupied as a school, church, synagogue, or other place of worship. The premises must be located in the city of Middletown, Orange County, and must be used for the sale of food or beverages at retail for consumption on the premises. The specific location is a plot of land in Middletown, bounded by North Street and the lands of Beakes. The bill takes effect immediately.

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Last action: signed chap.345 (2025-08-22)Alert me
Quick answers about A 7579
What is the current status of A 7579?
As of September 28, 2025, A 7579 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.345".
Did A 7579 pass?
Yes. A 7579 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 7579, and where is it now?
A 7579 was authored by Asm. Paula Elaine Kay.
Recent actions15 total · showing 5
Aug. 22, 2025signed chap.345
Aug. 15, 2025delivered to governor
Jun. 04, 2025RETURNED TO ASSEMBLY
Jun. 04, 2025PASSED SENATE
Jun. 04, 20253RD READING CAL.1275
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Latest bill textIntroduced version, April 1, 2025 · 511 words
  
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 7579 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, State of New York, and being more accu- 15 rately bounded and described as follows: 16 BEGINNING at a point in the easterly line of North Street at the 17 northeasterly building corner which lies on the herein described parcel 18 and at the southwesterly building corner which lies on the lands of 19 Beakes; thence from the said point or place of beginning and following 20 along a common brick party wall and along the line of lands of Beakes, 21 South 62 degrees 17' 25" East a distance of 51.50 feet to a point; 22 thence along the line of lands of City of Middletown and passing through 23 a concrete wall, South 21 degrees 17' 35" West a distance of 16.83 feet 24 to a point; thence still along the lien of lands of the City of Middle- EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD10684-01-5 

 A. 7579 2 1 town and passing along a common brick party wall, North 61 degrees 51' 2 40" West a distance of 54.00 feet to a point in the easterly line of 3 North Street; thence along the easterly line of North Street, North 29 4 degrees 52' 40" East a distance of 16.33 feet to the point or place of 5 BEGINNING. 6 BEING and intended to be the same premises conveyed to Paul Wyman by 7 deed from F.D. Kernochan, Inc., dated May 14, 1997 and recorded in the 8 Orange County Clerk's Office on May 16, 1997, in Liber 4570, page 16. 9 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. 

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