---
type: "Bill"
title: "Changes the duration of certain licenses"
description: "Provides the liquor authority the ability to set the duration of brewer's licenses, farm brewery licenses and restaurant-brewer licenses to three years."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ny"
legislature: "New York Legislature"
session: "2023-2024"
identifier: "A 6134"
citation: "New York A 6134 (2023-2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Sarah Clark"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 12
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2023-04-03"
last_action: "2023-10-13"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/769519da-7cf4-47bf-a1ac-29cc3c8cdbe9"
source_url: "http://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2023/A6134"
source_hash: "2d4a2ec058613478b26fb97d82fca4b2b67d29215ab65d69d0a1788b65754d88"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ny"]
---

# New York A 6134 (2023-2024) — Changes the duration of certain licenses

Provides the liquor authority the ability to set the duration of brewer's licenses, farm brewery licenses and restaurant-brewer licenses to three years.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **A6134** (committee substitute) — [source](http://assembly.state.ny.us/leg/?sh=printbill&bn=A6134&term=2023&Text=Y)

## Votes

- Floor Vote — **61–0** (pass) · upper
- Assembly Vote — **144–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Sarah Clark — primary (person)
- Dana Levenberg — cosponsor (person)
- Donna Lupardo — cosponsor (person)
- John T. McDonald III — cosponsor (person)
- Patricia Fahy — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2023-04-03** REFERRED TO ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT `referral-committee`
- **2023-04-25** REPORTED
- **2023-04-27** ADVANCED TO THIRD READING CAL.181
- **2023-05-08** PASSED ASSEMBLY `passage`
- **2023-05-08** DELIVERED TO SENATE
- **2023-05-08** REFERRED TO COMMERCE, ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND SMALL BUSINESS `referral-committee`
- **2023-06-07** SUBSTITUTED FOR S6443
- **2023-06-07** 3RD READING CAL.1688
- **2023-06-07** PASSED SENATE `passage`
- **2023-06-07** RETURNED TO ASSEMBLY
- **2023-10-13** DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR `executive-receipt`
- **2023-10-13** SIGNED CHAP.523 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/769519da-7cf4-47bf-a1ac-29cc3c8cdbe9`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official New York legislature records).