Bill Text: NY S08864 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires grocery stores that offer digital coupons automatically apply such coupons for senior citizens and loyalty or rewards program members.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-03-22 - REFERRED TO CONSUMER PROTECTION [S08864 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S08864-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          8864

                    IN SENATE

                                     March 22, 2024
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by Sen. BORRELLO -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Consumer Protection

        AN ACT to amend the general  business  law,  in  relation  to  requiring
          grocery  stores  that  offer  digital coupons automatically apply such
          coupons for senior citizens and loyalty or rewards program members

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

     1    Section 1. The general business law is amended by adding a new section
     2  396-ccc to read as follows:
     3    §  396-ccc.  Digital coupons in grocery stores. 1. For the purposes of
     4  this section, the following terms shall have the following meanings:
     5    (a) "Digital coupon" means any coupon offered by a grocery store in an
     6  electronic format through its website or mobile application,  including,
     7  but  not  limited  to,  digital coupons offered pursuant to a loyalty or
     8  rewards program.
     9    (b) "Grocery store" shall have  the  same  meaning  as  such  term  is
    10  defined in subdivision thirteen of section three of the alcoholic bever-
    11  age control law.
    12    (c)  "Loyalty or rewards program" means any system, program, contract,
    13  or agreement offered by  a  grocery  store  that  provides  benefits  to
    14  returning customers.
    15    (d) "Senior citizen" means any person age sixty-five or older.
    16    2.  Any  grocery store that offers digital coupons shall, at the point
    17  of sale, automatically apply any such digital coupons which apply  to  a
    18  specific product being purchased at the register for senior citizens and
    19  members of a loyalty or rewards program.
    20    §  2.  This  act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
    21  have become a law.



         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD14981-01-4