S 663: Removes the requirement of the state liquor authority to have not more than two members of the authority belong to the same political party.

  
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 663 2025-2026 Regular Sessions  IN SENATE (Prefiled) January 8, 2025 ___________ Introduced by Sen. SKOUFIS -- 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 removing the requirement of the state liquor authority to have not more than two members of the authority belong to the same political party The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Section 11 of the alcoholic beverage control law, as 2 amended by section 2 of part E of chapter 57 of the laws of 2011, is 3 amended to read as follows: 4 § 11. Appointment of authority. The members of the authority shall be 5 appointed by the governor by and with the advice and consent of the 6 senate. [Not more than two members of the authority shall belong to the 7 same political party.] The [chairman] chairperson of the state alcoholic 8 beverage control board heretofore appointed and designated by the gover- 9 nor and the remaining members of such board heretofore appointed by the 10 governor shall continue to serve as [chairman] chairperson and members 11 of the authority until the expiration of the respective terms for which 12 they were appointed. Upon the expiration of such respective terms the 13 successors of such [chairman] chairperson and members shall be appointed 14 to serve for a term of three years each and until their successors have 15 been appointed and qualified. The commissioners, other than the [chair- 16 man] chairperson shall, when performing the work of the authority, be 17 compensated at a rate of two hundred sixty dollars per day, together 18 with an allowance for actual and necessary expenses incurred in the 19 discharge of their duties. The [chairman] chairperson shall receive an 20 annual salary established in section one hundred sixty-nine of the exec- 21 utive law. 22 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD02199-01-5