Bill Text: NY A04521 | 2025-2026 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Defines a "protected consumer" as an individual who is under the age of eighteen years.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2)

Status: (Passed) 2025-11-21 - signed chap.514 [A04521 Detail]

Download: New_York-2025-A04521-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          4521

                               2025-2026 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    February 4, 2025
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        Introduced  by M. of A. HYNDMAN -- read once and referred to the Commit-
          tee on Consumer Affairs and Protection

        AN ACT to amend the general business law, in relation to the  definition
          of "protected consumer"

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

     1    Section 1. Subdivision (o) of section 380-a of  the  general  business
     2  law,  as added by chapter 441 of the laws of 2014, is amended to read as
     3  follows:
     4    (o) The term "protected consumer" means an individual who is under the
     5  age of [sixteen] eighteen years at the time a request for the  placement
     6  of a security freeze is made.
     7    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.







         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD03665-01-5