Bill Text: NY S07266 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced


Bill Title: Prohibits sellers from imposing fees or surcharges with accepted forms of payment.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-15 - REFERRED TO CONSUMER PROTECTION [S07266 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-S07266-Introduced.html



                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          7266

                    IN SENATE

                                    January 15, 2020
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sen.  COMRIE -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Consumer Protection

        AN ACT to amend the general business law,  in  relation  to  prohibiting
          fees  or  surcharges  with  accepted  forms  of payment; and to repeal
          section 518 of such law relating thereto

          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  392-k to read as follows:
     3    §  392-k.  Accepted form of payment; prohibited practices.  1. For the
     4  purposes of this section, "differential pricing" shall mean the practice
     5  of charging customers different prices for the same product.
     6    2. No person, firm, partnership, association  or  corporation  who  is
     7  engaged  in a sales transaction may employ differential pricing based on
     8  a consumer's form of payment which the seller  accepts  as  payment  for
     9  goods  or  services  including,  but  not  limited to, imposing a fee or
    10  surcharge for using or processing an accepted form of payment.
    11    3. A knowing violation of this section shall be punishable by  a  fine
    12  not to exceed one thousand dollars.
    13    § 2. Section 518 of the general business law is REPEALED.
    14    §  3.  This  act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
    15  have become a law.





         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD13828-02-9
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