Bill Text: NY A00930 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced


Bill Title: Requires that a business allow a consumer to cancel a contract between the two parties using the same method that was used to enter into the contact.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 9-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - referred to consumer affairs and protection [A00930 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A00930-Introduced.html



                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                           930

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    January 11, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  M.  of A. DINOWITZ, ZEBROWSKI, GLICK, SEAWRIGHT, COLTON,
          GUNTHER, DICKENS, COOK -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M.  of  A.  DAVILA  --
          read  once  and  referred  to  the  Committee  on Consumer Affairs and
          Protection

        AN ACT to amend the general business law, in  relation  to  methods  for
          cancelling contracts

          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  391-w to read as follows:
     3    § 391-w. Method for contract cancellation.   Unless otherwise  author-
     4  ized  by  law,  rule,  or regulation, any business that contracts with a
     5  consumer shall allow such consumer to cancel  such  contract  using  the
     6  same  method that the business and consumer used to enter such contract,
     7  including but not limited to, in writing or online. For the purposes  of
     8  this  section,  "consumer"  shall mean a natural person residing in this
     9  state that enters into a contract  for  personal,  family  or  household
    10  purposes.
    11    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.





         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD00580-01-3
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