Bill Text: NY A08630 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Amended
Bill Title: Prohibits providers from imposing a fee for termination or early cancellation of certain service contracts in the event a customer has deceased before the end of such contract.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-0)
Status: (Passed) 2016-09-27 - signed chap.331 [A08630 Detail]
Download: New_York-2015-A08630-Amended.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 8630--A 2015-2016 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY December 23, 2015 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. GUNTHER, SEAWRIGHT, BARRETT -- read once and referred to the Committee on Consumer Affairs and Protection -- recom- mitted to the Committee on Consumer Affairs and Protection in accord- ance with Assembly Rule 3, sec. 2 -- 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 providers from imposing a fee for termination or early cancellation of certain service contracts in the event a customer has deceased before the end of such contract 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 2 399-zzzz to read as follows: 3 § 399-zzzz. Prohibition of certain fee charges for termination or 4 early cancellation. 1. Subject to federal law and regulation, no provid- 5 er of telephone, cellular telephone, television, internet, energy, or 6 water services shall impose a fee for termination or early cancellation 7 of a service contract in the event the customer has deceased before the 8 end of such contract. 9 2. Every violation of this section shall be punishable by a civil 10 penalty not to exceed one thousand dollars. 11 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD11877-06-6
