What's happening
This bill allows bars and restaurants to form cooperative agreements to jointly purchase alcoholic beverages in bulk.
Why it matters
Potential cost savings for small businesses. By allowing bars and restaurants to pool resources and buy alcohol in bulk, this bill could help small, independent establishments reduce their costs and compete more effectively with larger chains.
Encourages collaboration within the hospitality industry. The bill facilitates cooperation between different license holders, which could foster a stronger sense of community, joint marketing efforts, or shared best practices among local businesses.
May impact supplier and distributor relationships. Larger joint purchases could shift bargaining power towards retailers, possibly resulting in better pricing or terms from distributors, but also potentially raising concerns for suppliers about greater concentration of purchasing.
Maintains regulatory oversight and limits. The provision that only participating licensees can receive the purchased beverages helps prevent unauthorized resale or diversion, keeping regulatory control over alcohol distribution intact.
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Let Bars Buy Alcohol Together
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- Referred to economic development
- Referred to economic development
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STATE OF NEW YORK
134
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY (Prefiled)
January 9, 2019
Introduced by M. of A. CAHILL -- read once and referred to the Committee on Economic Development
AN ACT to amend the alcoholic beverage control law, in relation to allowing retail licensees for on-premises consumption to join in a cooperative agreement for the purchase of alcoholic beverages
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:
Section 1. The alcoholic beverage control law is amended by adding a new section 106-c to read as follows:
§ 106-c. Cooperative agreements by licensees to sell at retail for consumption on the premises. Any two or more retail licensees for on-premises consumption may join in a cooperative agreement to make joint purchases of alcoholic beverages in larger quantities than might otherwise be purchased; provided, however, that all alcoholic beverages purchased pursuant to any such agreement shall be distributed to none other than a licensee who is a party to such agreement.
§ 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after it shall have become a law. Effective immediately, the addition, amendment and/or repeal of any rule or regulation necessary for the implementation of this act on its effective date are authorized and directed to be made and completed on or before such effective date.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
LBD01924-01-9
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