STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 5649 2017-2018 Regular Sessions IN SENATE April 24, 2017 ___________ Introduced by Sens. RITCHIE, FUNKE, ROBACH -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Investi- gations and Government Operations AN ACT to amend the alcoholic beverage control law, in relation to the manufacturing of hops in New York state The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Subdivision 20 of section 3 of the alcoholic beverage 2 control law is amended to read as follows: 3 20. "Manufacturer" means and includes a distiller, brewer, vintner and 4 rectifier; "Manufacture" means and includes distilling, rectifying, 5 brewing and operating a winery, and shall also include the conversion of 6 raw or dried ingredients into a new form used by a distiller, brewer, 7 vintner or rectifier. 8 § 2. Subdivision 20-d of section 3 of the alcoholic beverage control 9 law, as added by chapter 108 of the laws of 2012, is amended to read as 10 follows: 11 20-d. "New York state labelled beer" means: 12 (a) from the effective date of this subdivision until December thir- 13 ty-first, two thousand eighteen, beer made with no less than twenty 14 percent, by weight, of its hops grown or manufactured in New York state 15 and no less than twenty percent, by weight, of all of its other ingredi- 16 ents, excluding water, grown in New York state; 17 (b) from January first, two thousand nineteen until December thirty- 18 first, two thousand twenty-three, beer made with no less than sixty 19 percent, by weight, of its hops grown or manufactured in New York state 20 and no less than sixty percent, by weight, of all of its other ingredi- 21 ents, excluding water, grown in New York state; and 22 (c) from January first, two thousand twenty-four and thereafter, beer 23 made with no less than ninety percent, by weight, of its hops grown or 24 manufactured in New York state and no less than ninety percent, by 25 weight, of all of its other ingredients, excluding water, grown in New 26 York state. 27 § 3. This act shall take effect January 1, 2018. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD10953-01-7