Bill Text: NY S00338 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires any person, firm, partnership, corporation, or association, or agent or employee thereof, which offers, in the regular course of business, an established senior citizen, student or veteran discount on the price of admission or membership thereto, to offer a discount on the price of admission or membership to disabled individuals.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - REFERRED TO AGING [S00338 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S00338-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                           338

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                       (Prefiled)

                                     January 4, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sen. JACKSON -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Aging

        AN ACT to amend the general business  law,  in  relation  to  discounted
          admission and memberships for certain individuals

          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. Section 396-cc of the general business  law,  as  added  by
     2  chapter 556 of the laws of 1998, is renumbered section 396-ccc and a new
     3  section 396-cccc is added to read as follows:
     4    § 396-cccc. Discounted admission and memberships for disabled individ-
     5  uals. 1. (a) Any person, firm, partnership, corporation, or association,
     6  or  agent  or  employee  thereof, which offers, in the regular course of
     7  business, an established senior citizen, student or veteran discount  on
     8  the  price of admission or membership thereto, shall offer a discount on
     9  the price of admission or membership to disabled individuals.
    10    (b) The price of admission or membership for such disabled  individual
    11  discount  shall  be  equal  to the lowest discount price offered by such
    12  person, firm, partnership, corporation,  or  association,  or  agent  or
    13  employee thereof to another category of individuals.
    14    (c)  An  admission  or membership purchased with a disabled individual
    15  discount pursuant to this section shall include free admission  for  the
    16  caregiver  accompanying such disabled individual. If a disabled individ-
    17  ual discounted admission or membership is available for purchase on  the
    18  website  of a person, firm, partnership, corporation, or association, or
    19  agent or employee thereof, such website shall include an option to iden-
    20  tify the caregiver of a disabled individual to receive the  free  admis-
    21  sion  pursuant  to this paragraph.   If a disabled individual discounted
    22  admission or membership is available for purchase at the box office of a
    23  person, firm, partnership, corporation,  or  association,  or  agent  or
    24  employee  thereof,  such  box  office  shall  conspicuously advertise an

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD02242-01-3
        S. 338                              2

     1  option to identify the caregiver of a disabled individual to receive the
     2  free admission pursuant to this paragraph.
     3    2.  (a) Any person, firm, partnership, corporation, or association, or
     4  agent or employee thereof, which offers, in the regular course of  busi-
     5  ness,  an established senior citizen, student, veteran or disabled indi-
     6  vidual discount on the price of admission or  membership  thereto  shall
     7  conspicuously  advertise  the availability and price of such discount at
     8  the box office and website of such  person,  firm,  partnership,  corpo-
     9  ration,  or  association, or agent or employee thereof. The availability
    10  and price of such discount shall also be conspicuously advertised on the
    11  accessibility page of the website of  such  person,  firm,  partnership,
    12  corporation, or association, or agent or employee thereof.
    13    (b)  Any  person,  firm,  partnership, corporation, or association, or
    14  agent or employee thereof, which offers, in the regular course of  busi-
    15  ness,  or utilizes a pay-as-you-wish policy on the price of admission or
    16  membership thereto shall conspicuously advertise such policy at the  box
    17  office  and  website  of such person, firm, partnership, corporation, or
    18  association, or agent or employee thereof. Such  policy  shall  also  be
    19  conspicuously  advertised  on  the  accessibility page of the website of
    20  such person, firm, partnership, corporation, or association, or agent or
    21  employee thereof.
    22    3. As used in this section the  following  terms  have  the  following
    23  meanings:
    24    (a) "Disabled individual" means a person with a disability, as defined
    25  in subdivision twenty-one of section two hundred ninety-two of the exec-
    26  utive law.
    27    (b)  "Caregiver" means the person who normally provides the daily care
    28  or supervision of a disabled individual.
    29    (c) "Pay-as-you-wish policy" means a pricing strategy where the  buyer
    30  determines what price such buyer will pay for a commodity.
    31    §  2.  This  act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
    32  have become a law.