Bill Text: NY A10408 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Prohibits internet-based food delivery service providers from charging local restaurants or their customers a fee for services during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-05-04 - referred to consumer affairs and protection [A10408 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A10408-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          10408

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                       May 4, 2020
                                       ___________

        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  prohibiting
          internet-based  food  delivery  service  providers from charging local
          restaurants and customers a  fee  for  services  during  the  COVID-19
          pandemic; and providing for the repeal of such provisions upon expira-
          tion thereof

          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-v to read as follows:
     3    § 391-v. Food delivery service charges to restaurants during COVID-19.
     4  1. Internet-based food  delivery  service  providers  offering  delivery
     5  services  in  conjunction with any local restaurants in this state shall
     6  not charge such restaurants or customers of such restaurants any commis-
     7  sion, fee, or other charge for offering such services until the  end  of
     8  the  state  of  disaster  emergency declared by the governor pursuant to
     9  article two-B of the executive law in response to the novel coronavirus,
    10  COVID-19, pandemic.
    11    2. For the purposes of this  section,  "internet-based  food  delivery
    12  service  provider"  shall  mean  any third-party platform which provides
    13  online and mobile food ordering and  delivery  services  in  conjunction
    14  with  local  restaurants  to deliver food from such local restaurants to
    15  customers.
    16    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately and shall expire  December
    17  31,  2021 when upon such date the provisions of this act shall be deemed
    18  repealed.



         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD16298-02-0