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S 6416: Provides for a license to sell liquor at retail for consumption on certain premises.

New York · Senate · 2025–2026 Legislative Session · last verified July 2, 2025

What S 6416 does, verified July 2, 2025

The bill aims to amend the Alcoholic Beverage Control Law to provide for a license to sell liquor at retail for consumption on certain premises. The law allows the authority to issue a retail license for on-premises consumption for a premises located within two hundred feet of a building occupied as a school, church, synagogue, or other place of worship. However, this provision only applies to a specific location in the city of Middletown, Orange County, where a premises is situated along North Street. The premises must be located wholly within the boundaries of the city and meet specific boundary descriptions. The bill takes effect immediately.

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Last action: SUBSTITUTED BY A7580 (2025-06-04)Alert me
Quick answers about S 6416
What is the current status of S 6416?
As of July 2, 2025, S 6416 is recorded as "Introduced": it has been introduced and is waiting for its first committee hearing or floor vote. The last recorded action, on June 4, 2025, was "SUBSTITUTED BY A7580".
Did S 6416 pass?
Not yet. S 6416 has been introduced and has not passed either house.
Who wrote S 6416, and where is it now?
S 6416 was authored by Sen. James Skoufis.
Recent actions5 total · showing 5
Jun. 04, 2025SUBSTITUTED BY A7580
May. 27, 2025ADVANCED TO THIRD READING
May. 22, 20252ND REPORT CAL.
May. 21, 20251ST REPORT CAL.1273
Mar. 13, 2025REFERRED TO COMMERCE, ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND SMALL BUSINESS
Latest bill textIntroduced version, March 13, 2025 · 589 words
  
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 6416 2025-2026 Regular Sessions  IN SENATE March 13, 2025 ___________ Introduced by Sen. SKOUFIS -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Commerce, Economic Devel- opment and Small Business 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 Schedule C 13 All that certain plot, piece or parcel of land situate, lying and 14 being in the City of Middletown, County of Orange and State of New York, 15 bounded and described as follows: 16 BEGINNING at a point on the southeasterly side of North Street, said 17 point being the southwesterly corner of lands now or formerly of DeGraw 18 Equity (liber 5208 page 260); 19 THENCE South 59 degrees 45 minutes 09 seconds East, a distance of 20 104.24 feet passing through a party wall and along the lands now or 21 formerly DeGraw Equity (liber 5208 page 260) to a building corner; 22 THENCE along the lands now or formerly Glendening (liber 4778 pages 23 277 & 281) the following three (3) courses and distances: EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD10682-01-5 

 S. 6416 2 1 1. South 59 degrees 42 minutes 20 seconds East, a distance of 30.00 2 feet; 3 2. South 30 degrees 47 minutes 00 seconds West, a distance of 23.89 4 feet; 5 3. South 34 degrees 37 minutes 40 seconds East, a distance of 26.38 6 feet to a building corner; 7 THENCE South 30 degrees 47 minutes 00 seconds West, a distance of 8 51.08 feet along the lands now or formerly Glendening (liber 4778 page 9 261) and Foley (liber 2334 page 295) to a point; 10 THENCE along the lands now or formerly Foley (liber 2334 page 295) the 11 following four (4) courses and distances: 12 1. North 61 degrees 09 minutes 30 seconds West, a distance of 60.00 13 feet; 14 2. North 82 degrees 02 minutes 01 seconds West, a distance of 20.03 15 feet; 16 3. South 30 degrees 46 minutes 54 seconds West, a distance of 0.94 17 feet; 18 4. North 59 degrees 50 minutes 59 seconds West, a distance of 84.24 19 feet passing through a party wall to a point; 20 THENCE North 30 degrees 47 minutes 04 seconds East, a distance of 21 89.54 feet along the southeasterly side of North Street to the point or 22 place of BEGINNING. 23 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. 

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