Bill Text: NY S05832 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Amended

New York Senate Bill 5832 (Prior Session Legislation)

Bill Title: Prohibits the involuntary removal of a passenger from a commercial passenger aircraft on the basis of overbooking; authorizes the commencement of a course of action from treble damages therefor.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-01-03 - REFERRED TO JUDICIARY [S05832 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-S05832-Amended.html



                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         5832--A
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                       May 2, 2017
                                       ___________
        Introduced  by  Sen.  ORTT  --  read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee  on  Judiciary  --  committee
          discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted
          to said committee
        AN  ACT  to  amend  the civil rights law, in relation to prohibiting the
          involuntary removal  from  a  commercial  passenger  aircraft  of  any
          passenger having an assigned seat thereon, on the basis of overbooking
          by the operator of such aircraft
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. The civil rights law is amended by  adding  a  new  section
     2  79-o to read as follows:
     3    §  79-o.  Action  for  involuntary removal from a commercial passenger
     4  aircraft; certain cases.  1.  No  passenger  admitted  to  a  commercial
     5  passenger  aircraft,  having  paid  the  fare for transportation on such
     6  aircraft and having an assigned seat  thereon,  shall  be  involuntarily
     7  removed  from such aircraft solely on the bases that the owner or opera-
     8  tor of the aircraft  overbooked  the  flight  thereof  or  assigned  the
     9  passenger's seat to another individual.
    10    2.  Any  person  involuntarily  removed  from  a  commercial passenger
    11  aircraft, in violation of subdivision one of this section, may  commence
    12  and maintain a cause of action to recover treble damages, plus costs and
    13  attorney's fees.
    14    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD11283-03-7