Bill Text: NY A02285 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Amended
Bill Title: Requires health clubs accept cancellation of a membership within twenty-four hours of receiving notice of the cancellation.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-04-05 - enacting clause stricken [A02285 Detail]
Download: New_York-2021-A02285-Amended.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 2285--B 2021-2022 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY January 14, 2021 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. PERRY -- read once and referred to the Committee on Consumer Affairs and Protection -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said commit- tee -- again reported from said committee with amendments, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee AN ACT to amend the general business law, in relation to the cancella- tion of a health club contract The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Section 624 of the general business law is amended by 2 adding a new subdivision 4 to read as follows: 3 4. Every contract for services shall provide that such health club 4 shall accept cancellation of a membership by the buyer or the buyer's 5 estate within twenty-four hours of receiving notice of the cancellation. 6 Such health clubs shall accept cancellation of a membership through 7 methods including, but not limited to, the internet, telephone, or in 8 person. For such cancellation of a membership to be required to be 9 accepted within twenty-four hours of receiving notice under this subdi- 10 vision, the cancellation shall be submitted either within the first 11 thirty-six hours of the purchase of a membership or after the full term 12 of the membership is completed. 13 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD03557-05-1
