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Senate bill · S370 (2025-26)

Allows licensees to sell wine or liquor at retail to certain other licensees for resale for consumption off the premises

New York State Senate

Same as A7639, the matching bill in the Assembly.

Latest action Aug 14, 2026

Sponsor: James Skoufis (State Senator, District 42, Democratic)

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From NY Open Legislation, the NY Senate and Assembly, and official rosters. This record was last updated Oct 29, 2026. About our data

Summary

Allows licensees to sell wine or liquor at retail for consumption off the premises to certain other licensees; allows such other licensees to resell such wine or liquor for consumption off the premises.

Summary from NY Open Legislation. How we handle summaries

Amends the Alcoholic Beverage Control Law.

Purpose, from the sponsor's memo

This bill would allow for reciprocal selling and purchasing between liquor stores.

Filed with the bill. Read it on nysenate.gov (opens in a new tab)

Where it stands

Assigned to a committee for review.

  1. Introduced
  2. In committee
  3. Up for a vote
  4. Passed one chamber
  5. Passed
  6. Enacted

Committee

Investigations And Government Operations · New York State Senate

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The sponsor's argument

Why James Skoufis says this is needed

Wholesaler agreements can be highly restrictive and costly for liquor stores, artificially inflating prices for consumers and sometimes preventing liquor stores from meeting consumer demand. In the interest of helping liquor stores meet the needs of their customers, enhancing purchasing power, and enabling better pricing for customers, this bill would allow these license holders to purchase from and sell to other license holders, providing flexibility and bulk discount opportunities for these businesses outside of wholesale agreements.

This is the sponsor's own case for the bill, quoted from their memorandum. It is not Agora's description of what the bill does.

Full history

  1. Aug 14, 2026

    Amend (t) and Recommit to Economic Development

    AMEND (T) AND RECOMMIT TO ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT

    NY Assembly

  2. Aug 10, 2026

    Amend (t) and Recommit to Investigations and Government Operations

    AMEND (T) AND RECOMMIT TO INVESTIGATIONS AND GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS

    NY Senate

  3. Jan 7, 2026

    Referred to committee

    REFERRED TO ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT

    NY Assembly

  4. Jan 7, 2026

    Referred to committee

    REFERRED TO INVESTIGATIONS AND GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS

    NY Senate

  5. Apr 4, 2025

    Referred to committee

    REFERRED TO ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT

    NY Assembly

Show full history (1 earlier event)
  1. Jan 8, 2025

    Referred to committee

    REFERRED TO INVESTIGATIONS AND GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS

    NY Senate

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