Bill Title: Prohibits a retail mercantile establishment from requiring a purchaser of goods to provide identification in order to get a refund for or exchange returned goods when the purchaser presents the original sales receipt; provides that when the purchaser does not present an original sales receipt, such an establishment may require the presentation of identification; directs the attorney general to enforce such provisions and imposes civil penalties for the violation of such provisions; directs the department of law to establish a statewide register of those retail establishments which have violated such provisions.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 26-4)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2012-09-04 - enacting clause stricken [A03476 Detail]

Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]

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Sponsors

Name	Type	Sponsorship	District	Financial	Encyclopedia	Biography
Assemblymember Peter Rivera [D]	Primary	Sponsored Bills	HD-076	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Assemblymember Philip Ramos [D]	Cosponsor	Sponsored Bills	HD-006	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Assemblymember Jose Rivera [D]	Cosponsor	Sponsored Bills	HD-078	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Assemblymember William Colton [D]	Cosponsor	Sponsored Bills	HD-047	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Assemblymember Carmen Arroyo [D]	Cosponsor	Sponsored Bills	HD-084	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Assemblymember Vito Lopez [D]	Cosponsor	Sponsored Bills	HD-053	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Assemblymember Barbara Clark [D]	Cosponsor	Sponsored Bills	HD-033	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Assemblymember Naomi Rivera [D]	Cosponsor	Sponsored Bills	HD-080	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Assemblymember Felix Ortiz [D]	Cosponsor	Sponsored Bills	HD-051	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Assemblymember Michael Benedetto [D]	Primary	Sponsored Bills	HD-082	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Assemblymember Clifford Crouch [R]	Primary	Sponsored Bills	HD-122	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Assemblymember Sandra Galef [D]	Primary	Sponsored Bills	HD-095	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Assemblymember Richard Gottfried [D]	Primary	Sponsored Bills	HD-075	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Assemblymember Aileen Gunther [D]	Primary	Sponsored Bills	HD-100	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Assemblymember Earlene Hooper [D]	Primary	Sponsored Bills	HD-052	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Assemblymember Rhoda Jacobs [D]	Primary	Sponsored Bills	HD-042	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Assemblymember Rory Lancman [D]	Primary	Sponsored Bills	HD-025	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Assemblymember Alan Maisel [D]	Primary	Sponsored Bills	HD-059	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Assemblymember Margaret Markey [D]	Primary	Sponsored Bills	HD-030	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Assemblymember John McEneny [D]	Primary	Sponsored Bills	HD-104	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Assemblymember Thomas McKevitt [R]	Primary	Sponsored Bills	HD-017	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Assemblymember Crystal Peoples-Stokes [D]	Primary	Sponsored Bills	HD-141	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Assemblymember Nick Perry [D]	Primary	Sponsored Bills	HD-058	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Assemblymember Robert Reilly [D]	Primary	Sponsored Bills	HD-109	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Assemblymember Joseph Saladino [R]	Primary	Sponsored Bills	HD-009	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Assemblymember Michael Spano [R]	Primary	Sponsored Bills	HD-037	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Assemblymember Robert Sweeney [D]	Primary	Sponsored Bills	HD-011	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Assemblymember Michele Titus [D]	Primary	Sponsored Bills	HD-031	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Assemblymember Darryl Towns [D]	Primary	Sponsored Bills	HD-054	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Assemblymember Harvey Weisenberg [D]	Primary	Sponsored Bills	HD-020	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart

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