Bill Text: NY S02859 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Amended
Bill Title: Requires the disposal of copies of identification documents by owner, lessee, proprietor or manager of any hotel, motel, steamboat, tourist cabins, camp, resort, tavern, inn, boarding or lodging house.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - REFERRED TO CONSUMER PROTECTION [S02859 Detail]
Download: New_York-2023-S02859-Amended.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 2859--A 2023-2024 Regular Sessions IN SENATE January 25, 2023 ___________ Introduced by Sen. SKOUFIS -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Consumer Protection -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee AN ACT to amend the general business law, in relation to requiring the disposal of copies of identification documents 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 2 209-h to read as follows: 3 § 209-h. Disposal of copies of identification documents. The owner, 4 lessee, proprietor or manager of any hotel, motel, steamboat, tourist 5 cabins, camp, resort, tavern, inn, boarding or lodging house shall 6 dispose of any copies of a guest's identification document, including 7 but not limited to a driver's license, passport, or non-driver identifi- 8 cation card, within twenty-four hours of the guest completing their 9 stay. Disposal of the copies shall include deletion of any digital 10 copies and the physical destruction of any physical copies such that it 11 would be impossible to recreate the copy. 12 § 2. This act shall take effect on the thirtieth day after it shall 13 have become a law. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD05744-04-3
