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A 8418: Allows the state liquor authority to issue a retail license for on-premises consumption for a premises which shall be located within two hundred feet of a building occupied as a church, synagogue or other place of worship.

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

What A 8418 does, verified September 28, 2025

Allows the state liquor authority to issue a retail license for on-premises consumption for a premises which shall be located within two hundred feet of a building occupied as a church, synagogue or other place of worship.

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Last action: signed chap.347 (2025-08-22)Alert me
Quick answers about A 8418
What is the current status of A 8418?
As of September 28, 2025, A 8418 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.347".
Did A 8418 pass?
Yes. A 8418 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 8418, and where is it now?
A 8418 was authored by Asm. Rodneyse Bichotte Hermelyn.
Recent actions15 total · showing 5
Aug. 22, 2025signed chap.347
Aug. 15, 2025delivered to governor
Jun. 12, 2025RETURNED TO ASSEMBLY
Jun. 12, 2025PASSED SENATE
Jun. 12, 20253RD READING CAL.1927
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Latest bill textIntroduced version, May 15, 2025 · 438 words
  
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 8418 2025-2026 Regular Sessions  IN ASSEMBLY May 15, 2025 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. BICHOTTE HERMELYN -- read once and referred to the Committee on Economic Development AN ACT to amend the alcoholic beverage control law, in relation to 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 church, synagogue or other place of 8 worship, provided such premises constitute a premises for the sale of 9 food or beverages at retail for consumption on the premises located 10 wholly within the boundaries of the Borough of Brooklyn, county of 11 Kings, bounded and described as follows: 12 ALL that certain plot, piece or parcel of land, with the buildings and 13 improvements thereon erect lying and being in the Borough of Brooklyn, 14 County of Kings, City and state of New York, bounded and described as 15 follows: 16 BEGINNING at a point on the Westerly side of flatbush Avenue distant 17 an one hundred (100) feet Northerly from the corner formed by the inter- 18 section of the Northerly side of Avenue R with the Westerly side of 19 Flatbush Avenu; 20 RUNNING THENCE Westerly parallel with Avenue R, one hundred (100) 21 feet; 22 THENCE Northerly parallel with Flatbush Avenue, twenty-six feet 8 23 inches (26'8") to 24 THENCE Southerly along the Westerly side of Flatbush Avenue, twenty- 25 six feet eight inches (26'8") to the point or Place of BeGINNING EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD13121-01-5 

 A. 8418 2 1 Thence Easterly again parallel with Avenue R and part of the distance 2 or distant through a party wall, one hundred (100) feet to the Westerly 3 side of Flatbush Avenue; SAID PREMISES being known as by the Street 4 number 2192-92A Flatbush Avenue, Brooklyn NY 5 BEING THE SAME premises convey to the grantor herein by deed 10/7/97 6 and recorded in Reel4035 , page 1017 7 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. 

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