Bill Text: NY S02859 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Amended

New York Senate Bill 2859

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
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                                         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