Bill Text: NY A03968 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires any person, firm, partnership, corporation, or association, or agent or employee thereof, which offers, in the regular course of business, an established senior citizen, student or veteran discount on the price of admission or membership thereto, to offer a discount on the price of admission or membership to disabled individuals.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - referred to consumer affairs and protection [A03968 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A03968-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          3968

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    February 8, 2023
                                       ___________

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

        AN  ACT  to  amend  the  general business law, in relation to discounted
          admission and memberships for certain individuals

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

     1    Section  1.  Section  396-cc  of the general business law, as added by
     2  chapter 556 of the laws of 1998, is renumbered section 396-ccc and a new
     3  section 396-cccc is added to read as follows:
     4    § 396-cccc. Discounted admission and memberships for disabled individ-
     5  uals. 1. (a) Any person, firm, partnership, corporation, or association,
     6  or agent or employee thereof, which offers, in  the  regular  course  of
     7  business,  an established senior citizen, student or veteran discount on
     8  the price of admission or membership thereto, shall offer a discount  on
     9  the price of admission or membership to disabled individuals.
    10    (b)  The price of admission or membership for such disabled individual
    11  discount shall be equal to the lowest discount  price  offered  by  such
    12  person,  firm,  partnership,  corporation,  or  association, or agent or
    13  employee thereof to another category of individuals.
    14    (c) An admission or membership purchased with  a  disabled  individual
    15  discount  pursuant  to this section shall include free admission for the
    16  caregiver accompanying such disabled individual. If a disabled  individ-
    17  ual  discounted admission or membership is available for purchase on the
    18  website of a person, firm, partnership, corporation, or association,  or
    19  agent or employee thereof, such website shall include an option to iden-
    20  tify  the  caregiver of a disabled individual to receive the free admis-
    21  sion pursuant to this paragraph.   If a disabled  individual  discounted
    22  admission or membership is available for purchase at the box office of a
    23  person,  firm,  partnership,  corporation,  or  association, or agent or
    24  employee thereof, such  box  office  shall  conspicuously  advertise  an

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD02242-01-3
        A. 3968                             2

     1  option to identify the caregiver of a disabled individual to receive the
     2  free admission pursuant to this paragraph.
     3    2.  (a) Any person, firm, partnership, corporation, or association, or
     4  agent or employee thereof, which offers, in the regular course of  busi-
     5  ness,  an established senior citizen, student, veteran or disabled indi-
     6  vidual discount on the price of admission or  membership  thereto  shall
     7  conspicuously  advertise  the availability and price of such discount at
     8  the box office and website of such  person,  firm,  partnership,  corpo-
     9  ration,  or  association, or agent or employee thereof. The availability
    10  and price of such discount shall also be conspicuously advertised on the
    11  accessibility page of the website of  such  person,  firm,  partnership,
    12  corporation, or association, or agent or employee thereof.
    13    (b)  Any  person,  firm,  partnership, corporation, or association, or
    14  agent or employee thereof, which offers, in the regular course of  busi-
    15  ness,  or utilizes a pay-as-you-wish policy on the price of admission or
    16  membership thereto shall conspicuously advertise such policy at the  box
    17  office  and  website  of such person, firm, partnership, corporation, or
    18  association, or agent or employee thereof. Such  policy  shall  also  be
    19  conspicuously  advertised  on  the  accessibility page of the website of
    20  such person, firm, partnership, corporation, or association, or agent or
    21  employee thereof.
    22    3. As used in this section the  following  terms  have  the  following
    23  meanings:
    24    (a) "Disabled individual" means a person with a disability, as defined
    25  in subdivision twenty-one of section two hundred ninety-two of the exec-
    26  utive law.
    27    (b)  "Caregiver" means the person who normally provides the daily care
    28  or supervision of a disabled individual.
    29    (c) "Pay-as-you-wish policy" means a pricing strategy where the  buyer
    30  determines what price such buyer will pay for a commodity.
    31    §  2.  This  act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
    32  have become a law.