Bill Text: NY A03963 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to ensuring fairness in the value of gifted goods.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 7-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-01-03 - ordered to third reading cal.301 [A03963 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-A03963-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          3963
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    January 30, 2017
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        Introduced by M. of A. DINOWITZ, GOTTFRIED, ARROYO, JOYNER, SEAWRIGHT --
          Multi-Sponsored  by -- M. of A. PERRY, SIMON -- read once and referred
          to the Committee on Consumer Affairs and Protection
        AN ACT to amend the general business law, in relation to ensuring  fair-
          ness in the value of gifted goods
          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 396 of the general business law is
     2  renumbered subdivision 4 and a new subdivision 3 is  added  to  read  as
     3  follows:
     4    3. No firm, partnership, association, or corporation with five or more
     5  retail  locations  in  this  state,  or agent or employee thereof, shall
     6  provide a consumer with a receipt that does  not  include  the  itemized
     7  pricing of any goods or merchandise sold at retail unless requested by a
     8  consumer  at  the  time  of original sale. If a consumer requests such a
     9  receipt, the provider of the receipt shall be required, for a period  of
    10  ninety  days  after the date of original sale, to record and have avail-
    11  able as a reference the itemized price of each item sold at the time  of
    12  original  sale.  Upon  a  consumer's return of any item accompanied by a
    13  receipt not including itemized pricing for any such item,  the  provider
    14  of such receipt shall refer to its records and, so long as the return is
    15  within  ninety  days  of  the  original sale, return to the consumer the
    16  total amount paid at the time of original sale in legal tender, a  writ-
    17  ten promise or electronic payment device.
    18    § 2. This act shall take effect September 1, 2018.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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