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

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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]

Download: New_York-2023-A03245-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         3245--A

                               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  --  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 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. Subdivision 3 of section 527-a of the general business law,
     2  as added by chapter 267 of the laws of  2020,  is  amended  to  read  as
     3  follows:
     4    3. In addition to the requirements of subdivision two of this section,
     5  a  consumer who accepts an automatic renewal or continuous service offer
     6  online shall be allowed to terminate the automatic renewal or continuous
     7  service exclusively  online,  which  may  include  a  termination  email
     8  formatted  and  provided by the business that a consumer can send to the
     9  business without additional  information.  A  business  shall  notify  a
    10  consumer  of  an upcoming automatic renewal or continuous service charge
    11  to the consumer's account thirty days prior to such renewal  or  charge.
    12  The  notice  shall include instructions on how to cancel such renewal or
    13  charge.
    14    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.



         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD03135-02-3