New York A 4553: Requires New York city identity cards to be accepted as valid written evidence of age or identification

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A04553 Summary:

BILL NOA04553 

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SPONSORFall

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Amd §3-115, NYC Ad Cd; add §390-f, Gen Bus L; amd §65-b, ABC L; amd §1399-cc, Pub Health L

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Requires New York city identity cards to be accepted as valid written evidence of age or identification.

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02/04/2025referred to cities

01/07/2026referred to cities

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 4553

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN ASSEMBLY

 February 4, 2025
 ___________

 Introduced by M. of A. FALL -- read once and referred to the Committee
 on Cities

 AN ACT to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, the
 general business law, the alcoholic beverage control law and the
 public health law, in relation to acceptance of New York city identity
 cards as valid written evidence of age or identification

 The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
 bly, do enact as follows:

 1 Section 1. Subdivision f of section 3-115 of the administrative code
 2 of the city of New York is amended by adding a new paragraph 4 to read
 3 as follows:
 4 (4) Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary, a valid New
 5 York city identity card shall be accepted as valid written evidence of
 6 age or identification in any situation where an individual is required
 7 to furnish written evidence of age or identification.
 8 § 2. The general business law is amended by adding a new section 390-f
 9 to read as follows:
 10 § 390-f. Acceptance of New York city identity cards. Notwithstanding
 11 any provision of law to the contrary, a valid New York city identity
 12 card issued pursuant to section 3-115 of the administrative code of the
 13 city of New York shall be accepted as valid written evidence of age or
 14 identification in any situation where an individual is required to
 15 furnish written evidence of age or identification.
 16 § 3. Paragraph (b) of subdivision 2 of section 65-b of the alcoholic
 17 beverage control law, as amended by chapter 519 of the laws of 1999, is
 18 amended to read as follows:
 19 (b) No licensee, or agent or employee of such licensee shall accept as
 20 written evidence of age by any such person for the purchase of any alco-
 21 holic beverage, any documentation other than: (i) a valid driver's
 22 license or non-driver identification card issued by the commissioner of
 23 motor vehicles, the federal government, any United States territory,

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD08696-01-5

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 1 commonwealth or possession, the District of Columbia, a state government
 2 within the United States or a provincial government of the dominion of
 3 Canada, or (ii) a valid passport issued by the United States government
 4 or any other country, or (iii) an identification card issued by the
 5 armed forces of the United States, or (iv) a valid New York city identi-
 6 ty card issued pursuant to section 3-115 of the administrative code of
 7 the city of New York. Upon the presentation of such driver's license or
 8 non-driver identification card issued by a governmental entity, such
 9 licensee or agent or employee thereof may perform a transaction scan as
 10 a precondition to the sale of any alcoholic beverage. Nothing in this
 11 section shall prohibit a licensee or agent or employee from performing
 12 such a transaction scan on any of the other documents listed in this
 13 subdivision if such documents include a bar code or magnetic strip that
 14 [that] may be scanned by a device capable of deciphering any electron-
 15 ically readable format.
 16 § 4. Subdivision 3 of section 1399-cc of the public health law, as
 17 amended by chapter 100 of the laws of 2019, is amended to read as
 18 follows:
 19 3. Sale of tobacco products, herbal cigarettes, liquid nicotine,
 20 shisha or electronic cigarettes in such places, other than by a vending
 21 machine, shall be made only to an individual who demonstrates, through
 22 (a) a valid