Requires vehicle rental agreements instruct renters to remove personal information before returning the vehicle; permits rental vehicles to have decals informing the renter to remove such information when returning the vehicle.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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9924--A
IN ASSEMBLY
April 26, 2024
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Introduced by M. of A. JACKSON, DICKENS, ARDILA -- 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 personal infor-
mation being removed from rental vehicles
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Section 396-z of the general business law is amended by
2 adding a new subdivision 17 to read as follows:
3 17. A rental vehicle company shall:
4 (a) include in the car rental agreement a clause instructing the
5 renter to remove their personal information from vehicles before return-
6 ing the vehicle.
7 (b) have the option to place inside all rental vehicles a decal
8 instructing renters to remove their personal information from the vehi-
9 cle before returning the vehicle.
10 § 2. This act shall take effect on the thirtieth day after it shall
11 have become a law; provided however that the amendments to section 396-z
12 of the general business law made by section one of this act shall
13 survive the expiration and reversion of such section as provided in
14 subdivision (a) of section 4 of chapter 109 of the laws of 2018, as
15 amended.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD14886-04-4
