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                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                         4786--A
 
                               2015-2016 Regular Sessions
 
                    IN SENATE
 
                                     April 17, 2015
                                       ___________
 
        Introduced  by  Sen.  FUNKE  -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Veterans, Homeland Securi-
          ty and Military Affairs -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered
          reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee
 
        AN ACT to amend the military law, in relation to the termination without
          penalty of certain service contracts
 
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
 
     1    Section  1.  The military law is amended by adding a new section 311-c
     2  to read as follows:
     3    § 311-c. Termination without penalty of certain service contracts.  1.
     4  The  provisions  of  this  section  shall  apply  to  every contract for
     5  services from a telecommunications service provider, an internet service
     6  provider, a health club as defined in section six hundred twenty-one  of
     7  the  general  business  law,  a  health spa, or a provider of television
     8  services, including but not limited to cable television,  direct  satel-
     9  lite  and other television-like services, in any case in which: (a) such
    10  contract was executed on or after the effective date of this section  by
    11  or  on  behalf  of  a  person who, after the execution of such contract,
    12  entered active military service for ninety days or longer; and  (b)  the
    13  person's  military  service  is at a location where the service provider
    14  cannot provide the services covered by the contract.
    15    2. (a) Any contract described in subdivision one of this  section  may
    16  be terminated without penalty by written notice delivered to the service
    17  provider  by such person in active military service canceling his or her
    18  contract within fourteen days of his or her receipt of orders to  report
    19  for  military service. Such notice shall include a copy of the orders in
    20  question.
    21    (b) Delivery of such notice shall be in accordance with industry stan-
    22  dards for notification of terminations, together with the future date on
    23  which the service is to be terminated.
    24    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD10473-02-5