Bill Text: NY A00105 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Prohibits food-service and retail establishments from refusing to accept cash as payment for goods or services; calls for a civil fine if an establishment should refuse cash as payment.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-1)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - referred to consumer affairs and protection [A00105 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A00105-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                         105--A

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                       (Prefiled)

                                     January 4, 2023
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        Introduced by M. of A. SAYEGH -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on  Consumer  Affairs  and  Protection  --  committee discharged, bill
          amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said  commit-
          tee

        AN  ACT  to  amend  the general business law, in relation to prohibiting
          retail establishments from refusing to accept payment in cash

          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  396-ii to read as follows:
     3    §  396-ii.  Cashless  policies prohibited. a. As used in this section,
     4  the following terms shall have the following meanings:
     5    (i) "Food-service establishment" shall  mean  an  establishment  which
     6  gives or offers for sale food or beverages to the public for consumption
     7  or use on or off the premises.
     8    (ii)  "Retail  establishment"  shall  mean  an  establishment in which
     9  consumer commodities are sold, displayed or offered for sale,  or  which
    10  provides services to consumers at retail.
    11    b.  It  shall be unlawful for a food-service establishment or a retail
    12  establishment, as policy, to refuse  to  accept  payment  in  cash  from
    13  consumers.
    14    c. A food-service establishment or retail establishment violating this
    15  section  is  liable  for  a  civil  penalty of not more than twenty-five
    16  hundred dollars for the first violation and a civil penalty of not  more
    17  than five thousand dollars for each succeeding violation.
    18    d.  The  department  of  labor  may  promulgate such rules as it deems
    19  necessary to implement and enforce this section.
    20    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD01516-03-3