STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          1510

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                    January 12, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sen.  BAILEY -- 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  special
          provisions of the not-for-profit sales

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

     1    Section 1. Section 802 of the general business law, as added by  chap-
     2  ter 599 of the laws of 1998, subdivision 1 as designated and subdivision
     3  2  as  added  by  chapter 301 of the laws of 2000, is amended to read as
     4  follows:
     5    § 802. Special provisions[; not-for-profit sales]. 1.   [No  otolaryn-
     6  gologist  or other licensed physician who has conducted a medical evalu-
     7  ation of hearing loss shall engage in the business of dispensing hearing
     8  aids for a profit.] No otolaryngologist or other licensed physician  who
     9  has  dispensed  a hearing aid shall refuse or fail to perform repairs or
    10  service on any hearing aid that they have dispensed.
    11    2. Every licensed physician who engages in the dispensing  of  hearing
    12  aids in compliance with the provisions of this section shall be required
    13  to  comply with sections seven hundred ninety-one, seven hundred ninety-
    14  eight and eight hundred three of this article, in addition to compliance
    15  with this section.
    16    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.




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