Bill Text: NY A02285 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Amended

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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

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         2285--A

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    January 14, 2021
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        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

        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. Such cancellation shall be effective within twenty-four hours.
     9    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.





         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD03557-03-1