Requires the disposal of copies of identification documents by owner, lessee, proprietor or manager of any hotel, motel, steamboat, tourist cabins, camp, resort, tavern, inn, boarding or lodging house.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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4034
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
January 31, 2025
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Introduced by Sen. SKOUFIS -- 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 requiring the
disposal of copies of identification documents
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
2 209-h to read as follows:
3 § 209-h. Disposal of copies of identification documents. The owner,
4 lessee, proprietor or manager of any hotel, motel, steamboat, tourist
5 cabins, camp, resort, tavern, inn, boarding or lodging house shall
6 dispose of any copies of a guest's identification document, including
7 but not limited to a driver's license, passport, or non-driver identifi-
8 cation card, within twenty-four hours of the guest completing their
9 stay. Disposal of the copies shall include deletion of any digital
10 copies and the physical destruction of any physical copies such that it
11 would be impossible to recreate the copy.
12 § 2. This act shall take effect on the thirtieth day after it shall
13 have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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