Bill Text: NY A03817 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Prohibits wireless telephone service plan termination fees in excess of fifty dollars.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 10-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - referred to consumer affairs and protection [A03817 Detail]
Download: New_York-2019-A03817-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 3817 2019-2020 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY January 31, 2019 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. ORTIZ, ARROYO, ZEBROWSKI, RIVERA, CAHILL, JAFFEE, GUNTHER -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. COLTON, GALEF, PEOPLES-STOKES -- read once and referred to the Committee on Consumer Affairs and Protection AN ACT to amend the general business law, in relation to prohibiting wireless telephone service plan termination fees in excess of fifty dollars The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. The general business law is amended by adding a new section 2 399-k to read as follows: 3 § 399-k. Wireless telephone service plan termination fees. 1. No plan 4 for the provision of wireless telephone service by a wireless telephone 5 service provider doing business in this state to a wireless telephone 6 service customer shall contain any provision which shall impose a fee 7 for terminating such plan in an amount greater that fifty dollars. 8 2. Any wireless telephone service provider that violates the 9 provisions of this section shall be subject to a civil penalty in the 10 amount of two thousand five hundred dollars for each occurrence. 11 § 2. This act shall take effect on the thirtieth day after it shall 12 have become a law and shall apply to all wireless telephone service 13 plans entered into on or after such effective date. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD08193-01-9
