Bill Text: NY A03245 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Assembly Bill 3245

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Bill Title: Requires businesses to notify consumers of an upcoming automatic renewal or continuous service charge to the consumer's account forty-five days prior to such charge; requires businesses to include instructions on how to cancel such renewal or charge in the notice to the consumer.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2023-06-06 - substituted by s5941b [A03245 Detail]

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          3245

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    February 2, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced by M. of A. PAULIN -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Consumer Affairs and Protection

        AN ACT to amend the general business law, in relation to requiring busi-
          nesses to notify consumers of an upcoming automatic renewal or contin-
          uous service charge thirty days prior to such charge

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

     1    Section 1. Subdivisions 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 and 8 of section  527-a  of  the
     2  general business law are renumbered subdivisions 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 and 9 and
     3  a new subdivision 3 is added to read as follows:
     4    3. A business shall notify a consumer of an upcoming automatic renewal
     5  or continuous service charge to the consumer's account thirty days prior
     6  to  such renewal or charge. The notice shall include instructions on how
     7  to cancel such renewal or charge.
     8    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.






         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD03135-01-3