S 104: Requires the chair of the state liquor authority to make quarterly reports to the governor and the legislature of the authority's enforcement activities for the preceding quarter.
The bill requires the chair of the state liquor authority to make quarterly reports to the governor and legislature on the authority's enforcement activities. These reports must be made within 25 days of the end of each quarter and posted to the authority's website and the state's open data portal in a machine-readable format. The reports should include information on the number of inspections, the conduct or complaint resulting in inspections, the duration of inspections, summonses issued, fines or penalties incurred, and establishment closures due to summonses. The reports must be made in a way that complies with federal, state, and local laws related to the privacy of information. The amendments to the law made by this bill will take effect on January 1st of the following year, but the existing section of the law will still expire at the same time.
| Jun. 05, 2026 | COMMITTED TO RULES |
| Mar. 12, 2026 | ADVANCED TO THIRD READING |
| Mar. 11, 2026 | 2ND REPORT CAL. |
| Mar. 10, 2026 | 1ST REPORT CAL.522 |
| Jan. 07, 2026 | REFERRED TO INVESTIGATIONS AND GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS |
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 104 2025-2026 Regular Sessions IN SENATE (Prefiled) January 8, 2025 ___________ Introduced by Sen. COMRIE -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Investigations and Govern- ment Operations AN ACT to amend the alcoholic beverage control law, in relation to requiring the chair of the state liquor authority to make certain quarterly reports The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Section 18 of the alcoholic beverage control law is amended 2 by adding a new subdivision 16 to read as follows: 3 16. (a) To make quarterly reports to the governor and the legislature 4 of the authority's enforcement activities for the preceding quarter. 5 Such report shall be made within twenty-five days of the end of each 6 quarter and posted to the authority's website and the state's open data 7 portal, in a machine-readable format. Such report shall include: (i) 8 information on the number of inspections aggregated statewide, as well 9 as disaggregated by county, senate and assembly districts, (ii) the 10 conduct or complaint that resulted in such inspections, (iii) informa- 11 tion on the duration of inspections, including the time each inspection 12 commences and the average time spent inside each establishment, (iv) any 13 summonses issued, and the agencies responsible for such summonses, and 14 fines or penalties incurred as a result, and (v) information on estab- 15 lishment closures as a result of summonses issued pursuant to such 16 inspections, including the average duration of such closures. 17 (b) No information that is otherwise required to be reported pursuant 18 to this subdivision shall be reported in a manner that would violate any 19 applicable provision of federal, state, or local law relating to the 20 privacy of information. 21 § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of January next succeed- 22 ing the date on which it shall have become a law, provided, however that 23 the amendments to section 18 of the alcoholic beverage control law made 24 by section one of this act shall not affect the expiration of such 25 section and shall be deemed to expire therewith. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD00275-01-5