Bill Text: NY A05228 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Requires that every publisher of a magazine sold by subscription shall disclose by a notice on the billing statement or billing invoice of each magazine mailed pursuant to subscription, a customer service telephone number; such notice shall be printed or written in a clear and conspicuous form.
Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 8-1)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-03-20 - substituted by s5517 [A05228 Detail]
Download: New_York-2017-A05228-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 5228 2017-2018 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY February 7, 2017 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. DINOWITZ, GALEF, ABINANTI, M. G. MILLER -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. COOK, CROUCH, PERRY -- read once and referred to the Committee on Consumer Affairs and Protection AN ACT to amend the general business law, in relation to requiring publishers of magazine subscriptions to disclose on the billing state- ments a customer service telephone number The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Section 335-a of the general business law is amended by 2 adding a new subdivision 1-a to read as follows: 3 1-a. Every publisher of a magazine sold by subscription shall disclose 4 by a notice on the billing statement or invoice of each magazine, mailed 5 pursuant to subscription, a customer service telephone number. Such 6 notice shall be printed or written in a clear and conspicuous form. 7 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD03561-01-7
