New York S 10559: Exempts certain property from the prohibition of alcohol sales within a certain distance of a school or place of worship

Bill Text

Bill Search and Legislative Information | New York State Assembly 

• 

• 

• 

• 

• 

• 

• 

• 

 Skip to main content 

 New York State Assembly

 Speaker Carl E. Heastie

 --> 
 --> 

 --> 

• 
 Assembly Members 

• 
 Legislative Info 

• 
 Public Hearings 

• 
 Speaker's Press 

• 
 Assembly Reports 

• 
 Committees & More 

• Bill Search Home
• Laws
• Legislative Calendar
• Public Hearing Schedule
• Assembly Calendars
• Assembly Committee Agenda 

 Javascript must be enabled to properly view this page. 

 Bill No.: 

• Summary 
• Actions 
• Committee&nbspVotes 
• Floor&nbspVotes 
• Memo 
• Text 
• LFIN 
• Chamber&nbspVideo/Transcript 
S10559 Summary:

BILL NOS10559A

&nbsp

SAME ASSAME AS A11457-B

&nbsp

SPONSORKAVANAGH

&nbsp

COSPNSR

&nbsp

MLTSPNSR

&nbsp

Amd §64, ABC L

&nbsp

Exempts certain property within Manhattan in the city of New York from the prohibition of alcohol sales within a certain distance of a school or place of worship.

Go to top S10559 Actions:

BILL NOS10559A

&nbsp

05/21/2026REFERRED TO COMMERCE, ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND SMALL BUSINESS

05/27/2026AMEND (T) AND RECOMMIT TO COMMERCE, ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND SMALL BUSINESS

05/27/2026PRINT NUMBER 10559A

06/03/2026COMMITTEE DISCHARGED AND COMMITTED TO RULES

06/03/2026ORDERED TO THIRD READING CAL.1691

06/03/2026SUBSTITUTED BY A11457B

&nbspA11457 AMEND=B Rules (Fall)

&nbsp05/19/2026referred to economic development

&nbsp05/28/2026amend and recommit to economic development

&nbsp05/28/2026print number 11457a

&nbsp05/29/2026amend and recommit to economic development

&nbsp05/29/2026print number 11457b

&nbsp06/01/2026reference changed to ways and means

&nbsp06/02/2026reported referred to rules

&nbsp06/02/2026reported 

&nbsp06/02/2026rules report cal.380

&nbsp06/02/2026ordered to third reading rules cal.380

&nbsp06/02/2026passed assembly

&nbsp06/02/2026delivered to senate

&nbsp06/02/2026REFERRED TO RULES

&nbsp06/03/2026SUBSTITUTED FOR S10559A

&nbsp06/03/20263RD READING CAL.1691

&nbsp06/03/2026PASSED SENATE

&nbsp06/03/2026RETURNED TO ASSEMBLY

&nbsp07/17/2026delivered to governor

&nbsp07/24/2026signed chap.179

Go to topS10559 Committee&nbspVotes:

Go to topS10559 Floor&nbspVotes:

There are no Assembly votes for this bill in this legislative session.

Go to topS10559 Text:

 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 10559--A

 IN SENATE

 May 21, 2026
 ___________

 Introduced by Sen. KAVANAGH -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
 printed to be committed to the Committee on Commerce, Economic Devel-
 opment and Small Business -- committee discharged, bill amended,
 ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee

 AN ACT to amend the alcoholic beverage control law, in relation to an
 exemption for certain property from the prohibition of alcohol sales
 within a certain distance of a school or place of worship

 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-18) to read as
 3 follows:
 4 (e-18) 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 Manhattan, bounded
 11 and described as follows:
 12 AS TO THE FEE PARCEL:
 13 ALL that certain plot, piece or parcel of land, situate, lying and
 14 being in the Borough of Manhattan, County, City and State of New York,
 15 bounded and described as follows:
 16 BEGINNING at the corner formed by the intersection of the Easterly
 17 side of Greenwich Street with the Southerly side of Thames Street;
 18 RUNNING THENCE Easterly along the Southerly side of Thames Street, 119
 19 feet 3-1/2 inches to the ground now or late belonging to James Walker
 20 and formerly leased to E. Devoe and M. Williams;
 21 THENCE Southerly along the same, 79 feet 8 inches to the Southerly
 22 line of land conveyed by the Rector, Church Wardens and Vestrymen of the
 23 Protestant Episcopal Church of St. Stephens of the City of New York to
 24 The Hamilton Building Company by Deed dated February 1, 1907 and

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD15941-02-6

 S. 10559--A 2

 1 recorded February 4, 1907 in Liber 110 Cp 42 Sec. 1 in the Office of the
 2 Register of the County of New York;
 3 THENCE Westerly along the same, 106 feet 10 inches, more or less
 4 (deed) 107.01 feet (actual) to the Easterly side of Greenwich Street;
 5 and
 6 THENCE Northerly along the sai