Exempts multi-service health clubs from the provisions stating that no contract for services shall require payment by the person receiving service or the use of the facilities in a total amount of three thousand six hundred dollars per annum.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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8638--A
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
May 22, 2025
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Introduced by M. of A. KIM -- read once and referred to the Committee on
Consumer Affairs and Protection -- committee discharged, bill amended,
ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee
AN ACT to amend the general business law, in relation to multi-service
health clubs
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section 623 of the general business law,
2 as amended by chapter 660 of the laws of 1990, is amended and a new
3 subdivision 6 is added to read as follows:
4 1. No contract for services shall require payment by the person
5 receiving service or the use of the facilities of a total amount in
6 excess of three thousand six hundred dollars per annum, as cumulatively
7 and annually adjusted for inflation based upon the US Consumer Price
8 Index, provided, however, that this subdivision shall not apply to
9 contracts relating solely to the use of tennis, platform tennis [or] and
10 racquet ball facilities, and multi-service health clubs.
11 6. For the purposes of this section, the term multi-service health
12 club shall mean any New York based health club or gym which offers or
13 offers access to three or more of the following amenities: digital plat-
14 form services such as on-demand classes; individualized training
15 programming; fitness instructor training and/or certification; spa
16 treatments, co-working space, childcare; recurring group fitness class-
17 es; adult and/or youth sports programming; locker room with amenities
18 such as laundry service, steam rooms, and other toiletries; swimming
19 pool or swimming pools, or on-site food and beverage.
20 § 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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