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


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-Amended.html



                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                         2156--A

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    January 23, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  M.  of  A. L. ROSENTHAL -- read once and referred to the
          Committee on Consumer Affairs and 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.
                                                                   LBD05744-03-3
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