Bill Text: NY A02156 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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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 affairs and protection [A02156 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A02156-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          2156

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    January 23, 2023
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        Introduced  by  M.  of  A. L. ROSENTHAL -- read once and referred to the
          Committee on Consumer Affairs and Protection

        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 twelve hours of the  guest  completing  their  stay.
     9  Disposal  of the copies shall include deletion of any digital copies and
    10  the physical destruction of any physical copies such that  it  would  be
    11  infeasible 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.
                                                                   LBD05744-01-3